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Space, Geometry, and Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories (Hardcover)
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Space, Geometry, and Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories (Hardcover)
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Thomas C. Vinci aims to reveal and assess the structure of Kant's
argument in the Critique of Pure Reason called the "Transcendental
Deduction of the Categories." At the end of the first part of the
Deduction in the B-edition Kant states that his purpose is
achieved: to show that all intuitions in general are subject to the
categories. On the standard reading, this means that all of our
mental representations, including those originating in
sense-experience, are structured by conceptualization. But this
reading encounters an exegetical problem: Kant states in the second
part of the Deduction that a major part of what remains to be shown
is that empirical intuitions are subject to the categories. How can
this be if it has already been shown that intuitions in general are
subject to the categories? Vinci calls this the Triviality Problem,
and he argues that solving it requires denying the standard
reading. In its place he proposes that intuitions in general and
empirical intuitions constitute disjoint classes and that, while
all intuitions for Kant are unified, there are two kinds of
unification: logical unification vs. aesthetic unification. Only
the former is due to the categories. A second major theme of the
book is that Kant's Idealism comes in two versions-for laws of
nature and for objects of empirical intuition-and that
demonstrating these versions is the ultimate goal of the Deduction
of the Categories and the similarly structured Deduction of the
Concepts of Space, respectively. Vinci shows that the Deductions
have the argument structure of an inference to the best explanation
for correlated domains of explananda, each arrived at by
independent applications of Kantian epistemic and geometrical
methods.
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