Kant's Idealism - New Interpretations of a Controversial Doctrine

Preface

Editorial Notes

Contents

Contributors

About the Contributors

1 Kants Idealism: The Current Debate

1 The Epistemological Reading Reconsidered: Allison Meets His Critics Again

2 Novel Two-Aspect Readings

2.1 The Bold Metaphysical Two-Aspect View

2.2 Allais' Middle Course

2.3 Two-Aspect Readings and Cross-Boundary Identity

3 Continuing Issues with the Ontological Approach to Idealism

3.1 Phenomenalism Revisited

3.2 Metaphysical Short Arguments to Idealism

4 Concluding Remarks

References

Part I Interpreting Transcendental Idealism

2 Kants Idealism on a Moderate Interpretation

1 The Idea of a Moderate Interpretation

2 Transcendental and Idealism

3 Idealism in Context

4 The Ideal As Fundamentally Conditioned

5 On Another Kind of Moderate Alternative

6 Further Versions of Moderation

7 Further Alternatives to Hannas Alternative

8 Theoretical Difficulties

9 Practical Difficulties

References

3 Objects and Objectivity in Kant's First Critique

1 Objects in Transcendental Idealism

2 Kantian Objectivity

References

4 Transcendental Idealism in the Third Critique

1 The Question of the Conditions of Empirical Knowledge

2 The Aesthetic and Logical Purposiveness of Nature

3 Transcendental Idealism in the Third Critique

4 Conclusion

References

Part II Transcendental Idealism Logic

5 Transcendental Idealism and the Transcendental Deduction

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3.1

3.2

References

6 Transcendental Idealism and Transcendental Apperception

1 Kants Criticism of the Cogito in the Paralogisms

2 Transcendental Apperception and the Argument of the B-Deduction

3 Allison, Objectivity and the First Part of the Argument of the B-Deduction

4 Perception, Judgment and Experience in the Prolegomena

5 Allisons Objections to the Discussion of Judgments of Perception

6 Transcendental Idealism and the Second Part of the B-Deduction

7 Conclusion

References

7 Marks, Images, and Rules: Concepts and Transcendental Idealism

1 Concepts as Marks or Images

2 Kant on Concepts

3 Kant on Concepts as Images

4 Kant on Concepts as Marks

5 Concepts as Rules

6 Concepts and Transcendental Idealism

7 Summary

References

8 Discursivity and Transcendental Idealism

1 The Non-Discursive Understanding

2 Discursivity and Transcendental Idealism

3 Conclusion

References

9 Limitation and Idealism: Kants Long Argument from the Categories

1 Introduction: Thinking the Thing in Itself and Idealism

2 Do the Categories Have Meaning Beyond the Bounds of Sensible Experience

3 Woods Identity Interpretation

4 Objective Determination in the Transcendental Deduction

5 The Transcendental Ideal and Limitation

6 Conclusion

References

Part III Transcendental Idealism The Thing in Itself

10 Appearance, Thing-in-Itself, and the Problem of the Skeptical Hypothesis

1 Introduction

2 Appearance and Thing-in-Itself

3 Empirical Dualism and Transcendental Dualism

3.1 Empirical Dualism

3.2 Transcendental Dualism

4 Three Objections

References

11 Thinking the In-itself and Its Relation to Appearances

1 The Metaphysical Content of the Doctrine of Transcendental Idealism

2 Issues of Dogmatism and Irrelevance

3 Revisiting the Text from the Beginning of the Aesthetic

4 Beyond the Bounds of Possible Knowledge

5 Saying More About Affection and the In-itself

6 What Does the Conceptual Indeterminacy of the In-itself Mean

7 Some Thoughts on Transcendental Idealism

8 Conclusion

References

12 How to Account for Reasonx2019;s Interest in an Ultimate Prototypex003F; A Note on Kantx2019;s DoctrineINTnl; of the Transcendental Ideal

1 Introduction

2 Revisiting Kants Theory of Pure Reason

3 On Longuenesses Interpretation

4 Conclusion

References