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Manifest Reality - Kant's Idealism and his Realism (Paperback)
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Manifest Reality - Kant's Idealism and his Realism (Paperback)
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At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an
epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental
idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position.
Despite the centrality of transcendental idealism in Kant's
thinking, in over two hundred years since the publication of the
first Critique there is still no agreement on how to interpret the
position, or even on whether, and in what sense, it is a
metaphysical position. Lucy Allais argue that Kant's distinction
between things in themselves and things as they appear to us has
both epistemological and metaphysical components. He is committed
to a genuine idealism about things as they appear to us, but this
is not a phenomenalist idealism. He is committed to the claim that
there is an aspect of reality that grounds mind-dependent
spatio-temporal objects, and which we cannot cognize, but he does
not assert the existence of distinct non-spatio-temporal objects. A
central part of Allais's reading involves paying detailed attention
to Kant's notion of intuition, and its role in cognition. She
understands Kantian intuitions as representations that give us
acquaintance with the objects of thought. Kant's idealism can be
understood as limiting empirical reality to that with which we can
have acquaintance. He thinks that this empirical reality is
mind-dependent in the sense that it is not experience-transcendent,
rather than holding that it exists literally in our minds. Reading
intuition in this way enables us to make sense of Kant's central
argument for his idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic, and to
see why he takes the complete idealist position to be established
there. This shows that reading a central part of his argument in
the Transcendental Deduction as epistemological is compatible with
a metaphysical, idealist reading of transcendental idealism.
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