Ferraris Goodbye, Kant!

What Still Stands of the Critique of Pure Reason
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4810-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

A penetrating and freewheeling evaluation of Kant's magnum opus.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferraris, Maurizio

Weitere Mitwirkende

Davies, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Introduction

1. Kant’s revolution

Why start a revolution
The rationalists and the Library of Babel
The empiricists and Funes the Memorious
Refounding metaphysics by overturning the point of view

2. The basic claims

The scheme of the work
The metaphysics of experience
Five ontological theses
Two epistemological theses
Where to find them

3. What is inherited (Examination)

New wine in old bottles
Kant’s metaphysics
The models of the Critique of Pure Reason
The naturalization of physics
Consequences

4. What is novel (Examination)

Kant and the platypus
Phenomenon and noumenon
Deduction, schematism, and imagination
The hundred thalers
Synthetic a priori judgments
Are synthetic a priori judgments possible?
Dogmas of empiricism and dogmas of transcendentalism

5. The Transcendental Fallacy (Examination)

A semi-catastrophe
The purloined letter
A mind-dependent world
An avoidable fallacy

6. Conceptual Schemes and Phenomena

Over-powerful spectacles
The Thesis of Conceptual Schemes
Are intuitions without concepts blind?
Are concepts without intuitions empty?
The Thesis of the Phenomena

7. Space and Time

What is the Transcendental Aesthetic?
Space
Time
The meaning of mathemathization

8. Self, Substance, and Cause

Self: The world as representations
Substance
Cause

9. Logical apparatus (Examination)

A complicated contrivance

First Gadget: Judgments and Categories (Metaphysical deduction)

Second Gadget: Deduction
Deduction A: Theory of knowledge
Deduction B: Transcendental psychology

Third Gadget: The Schematism
How a schema works: Kant’s hints
How a schema works: A speculative hypothesis
The timeline
Why it doesn’t work
Could it have worked?

Fourth Gadget: Principles
Afterword on reciprocal action

10. From phenomena to screwdrivers

The deduction of naturalization
The Critique of Practical Reason
The Critique of Judgment

11. Reckoning with the revolution

A spectre is haunting Europe
Matrix
Kant and Talleyrand
An Iroquois in Paris
From Kant to Kafka

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maurizio Ferraris is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin in Italy. His many books include Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces, also translated by Richard Davies. Richard Davies is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bergamo, Italy, and author of Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue.