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Kant's Transcendental Deduction - An Analytical-Historical Commentary (Hardcover)
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Kant's Transcendental Deduction - An Analytical-Historical Commentary (Hardcover)
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Henry E. Allison presents an analytical and historical commentary
on Kant`s transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the
understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason. He argues that,
rather than providing a new solution to an old problem (refuting a
global skepticism regarding the objectivity of experience), it
addresses a new problem (the role of a priori concepts or
categories stemming from the nature of the understanding in
grounding this objectivity), and he traces the line of thought that
led Kant to the recognition of the significance of this problem in
his 'pre-critical' period. Allison locates four decisive steps in
this process: the recognition that sensibility and understanding
are distinct and irreducible cognitive powers, which Kant referred
to as a 'great light' of 1769; the subsequent realization that,
though distinct, these powers only yield cognition when they work
together, which is referred to as the 'discursivity thesis' and
which led directly to the distinction between analytic and
synthetic judgments and the problem of the synthetic a priori; the
discovery of the necessary unity of apperception as the supreme
norm governing discursive cognition; and the recognition, through
the influence of Tetens, of the role of the imagination in
mediating between sensibility and understanding. In addition to the
developmental nature of the account of Kant`s views, two
distinctive features of Allison'sreading of the deduction are a
defense of Kant`s oft criticized claim that the conformity of
appearances to the categories must be unconditionally rather than
merely conditionally necessary (the 'non-contingency thesis') and
an insistence that the argument cannot be separated from Kant`s
transcendental idealism (the 'non-separability thesis').
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