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Kant's Intuitionism : A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic /
"Ever since the publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, Immanuel Kant has occupied a central position in the philosop Transcendental Aesthetic, namely, his position on how we manage to intuit the properties and relations of objects as they exist in space and time." "It is...
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliographical Note
- INTRODUCTION
- i. Nativism and Empirism
- ii. Intuitionism and Constructivism
- iii. Formal Intuitionism
- iv. Kant's Formal Intuitionism
- v. Grounds for the Popular Neglect of Formal Intuitionism
- PART I: KANT'S REPRESENTATION TERMINOLOGY
- Introduction
- i. The Place of the Aesthetic in the Critique of Pure Reason
- ii. Basic Confusions in Kant's Thought
- 1 The Distinction between Intuition and Understanding
- i. The Sense/Intellect Distinction in ID
- ii. The Argument of ID
- Iii. Strategic Difficultiesiv. The Distinction between the Faculties in the Critique
- v. The Circularity Problem
- vi. Regressive Terminology
- 2 The Distinction between Form and Matter of Intuition
- The Blindness Problem
- i. The Two Basic Features of an Intuitive Representation
- ii. Textual Evidence against Forms as Mechanisms
- iii. Textual Evidence against Forms as Representations
- iv. Conflicting Passages
- v. Afterword
- 3 Sensation and the Matter of Intuition
- i. The Epistemological Role of Sensation
- Ii. The Ontological Status of SensationAppendix: Sensations as Effects of the Intensity of Force
- Objection
- 4 Origins of the Form and the Matter of Intuition
- Summary and Conclusions to Part I
- PART II: THE EXPOSITIONS
- Introduction: Purpose and Method of the Expositions
- i. Purpose
- ii. Method
- Appendix: An Empirical Exposition of Our Concepts of Sensible Qualities
- 5 The First Exposition
- i. Kant's Objectives in the First Exposition
- ii. Kant's Sensationist Opposition
- iii. The Standard Objection to the First Exposition
- Iv. The Grounds of Kant's Rejection of SensationismAppendix: Meditations on the Epistemology of Order
- 6 The Second Exposition
- i. Analysis of the Argument
- ii. The Inextricability Argument
- iii. The Third Exposition in A and the Validity of Geometry
- iv. The Independence Argument
- 7 The Later Expositions
- i. The Singularity Argument
- ii. The Whole/Part Priority Argument
- iii. The Infinity Argument
- iv. The Completeness of the Later Expositions
- v. The Composition of Intelligible Spaces and Times
- 8 The Transcendental Expositions
- I. The Buttressing Argumentii. The Subjectivity Argument
- iii. The Explanation of the Possibility of Geometry and Mechanics
- Summary and Conclusions to Part II
- i. The Metaphysical Expositions
- ii. The Transcendental Expositions
- iii. Conclusions
- PART III: CONCLUSIONS FROM THE ABOVE CONCEPTS
- Introduction
- 9 Kant's Argument for the Non-spatiotemporality of Things in Themselves
- i. Substantival Space and Time
- ii. Relative Space and Time
- iii. Limits of Kant's Result
- iv. Summary and Conclusions