Kant/Rorty
How do Pragmatists view Kant? Rorty’s answer may be drawn from several of his essays: for Rorty, as for Dewey and other pragmatist philosophers, Kant...
How do Pragmatists view Kant? Rorty’s answer may be drawn from several of his essays: for Rorty, as for Dewey and other pragmatist philosophers, Kant...
From Kant’s Concluding Thoughts on the Transcendental Aesthetic up to the analytic of Concepts Contents The Myth of the Given The notion of a perceptual...
In theTranscendental Aesthetic Kant develops a thesis that might be stated as follows: Despite its foundational importance, this thesis might appear unilluminating, given that Descartes,...
A reader encountering the second half of the Antinomies is likely to feel a certain sense of culmination, perhaps even that Kant’s response to the...
Contents: General Introduction to the Antinomies The conflict between rationalism and empiricism that preceded the Critique is responsible for much of the dynamism that appears...
Having critiqued the rationalist argument for the simplicity of the soul, Kant now turns his attention to the rationalist notion of “personality” as an additional...
In the second paralogism, Kant continues to develop his critique of rationalist (Cartesian) psychology. He now turns his attention from its substantiality to its simplicity....
The first paralogism concerns the substantiality and immortality of the soul. It addresses whether our experience of the “I“ as an object of our inner...
In Book II of the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant shifts from a general discussion of his investigation of transcendental principles as a way out of certain...
Concepts of Pure Reason, Platonic Ideas, the Is/Ought Distinction, & Kantian Ideas as Transcendental The sections that lead up to the paralogisms of pure reason...