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Kantian Humility - Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (Hardcover, 198th)
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Kantian Humility - Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (Hardcover, 198th)
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Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's
doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in
themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical
distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of
substances. Kant says that phenomena-things as we know them-consist
'entirely of relations', by which he means forces. His claim that
we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but
epistemic humility: we have no knowledge of the intrinsic
properties of substances. This humility has its roots in some
plausible philosophical beliefs: an empiricist belief in the
receptivity of human knowledge and a metaphysical belief in the
irreducibility of relational properties. Langton's interpretation
vindicates Kant's scientific realism, and shows his
primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior even to
modern-day competitors. And it answers the famous charge that
Kant's tale of things in themselves is one that makes itself
untellable.
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