Possible Experience - Understanding Kant′s Critique of Pure Reason (Paper)

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-520-21499-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Arthur Collins's succinct, revisionist exposition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason brings a new clarity to this notoriously difficult text. Until recently most readers, ascribing broadly Cartesian assumptions to Kant, have concluded that the Critique advances an idealist philosophy, because Kant calls it "transcendental idealism" and because the work abounds in apparent confirmations of that interpretation.

Collins maintains not only that this reading of Kant is false but also that it conceals Kant's real achievements. To counter it, he addresses the themes and passages in the Critique that seem to require an idealist thesis and shows how they may be better understood without ascribing any idealist philosophy to Kant. His account coheres with Kant's explicit "refutations" of idealism, it fits Kant's rejection of the imputation of idealism to him by early critics and readers, and it validates Kant's contention that the second edition of the Critique changes the expression but not the doctrine of the first.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Arthur

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Note on Texts and Abbreviations

I. Kant and the Cartesian Philosophy of Mind

2. Subjectivism versus Idealism

3· Idealism and Transcendental Idealism

4· Are Things-in-Themselves Noumena?

5· The Concept of Representation

6. "Space Is in Us"

7· Outer Causes of Perception

8. Kant Not a Foundationalist

9· The "How-Possible" Questions

IO. The "Clue" for Finding the Categories

II. The Parallelism of Inner and Outer Sense

I2. The Subject of Experience

I3. How Representations Make Objects Possible

14· Objects and Empirical Realism

I5. The Idealistic Understanding of Kant's Theoretical Philosophy

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Arthur Collins is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of The Nature of Mental Things (1987) and Thought and Nature: Studies in Rationalist Philosophy (1985).