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The Normativity of Nature - Essays on Kant's Critique of Judgement (Paperback)
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The Normativity of Nature - Essays on Kant's Critique of Judgement (Paperback)
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Most philosophers have taken the importance of Kant's Critique of
Judgement to lie primarily in its contributions to aesthetics and
to the philosophy of biology. Hannah Ginsborg, however, sees the
Critique of Judgement as representing a central contribution to the
understanding of human cognition more generally. The fourteen
essays collected here advance a common interpretive project: that
of bringing out the philosophical significance of the notion of
judgement which figures in the third Critique and showing its
importance both to Kant's own theoretical philosophy and to
contemporary views of human thought and cognition. To possess the
capacity of judgment, on the interpretation presented here, is to
respond to the world in a way which involves the recognition of
one's responses as normatively appropriate to the objects which
cause them. It is through this capacity that we are able not merely
to respond discriminatively to objects, as animals do, but to bring
them under concepts and so to make claims about them which can be
true or false. The Critique of Judgement, on this reading, rejects
the traditional dichotomy between the natural and the normative,
taking nature itself both human nature and nature outside us to be
comprehensible only in normative terms. The essays in this book
develop this reading in its own right, and draw on it to address
interpretive debates in Kant's aesthetics, theory of knowledge, and
philosophy of biology. They also bring out its relevance to
contemporary debates about concept-acquisition, the content of
perception, and skepticism about rule-following and meaning.
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