|
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology
|
Buy Now
Kant's Anatomy of the Intelligent Mind (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,530
Discovery Miles 35 300
|
|
|
Kant's Anatomy of the Intelligent Mind (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
In a 2005 editorial in the British newspaper The Guardian, Kant was
declared "the undefeated heavyweight philosophy champion of the
world" because he had the "insight ... to remove psychology from
epistemology, arguing that knowledge is inevitably mediated by
space, time and forms within our minds." This is an accurate
reflection of the consensus view of philosophers and scientists
that Kant's accounts of space, time, nature, mathematics, and logic
on the Critique of Pure Reason are rationalist, normativist, and
nativist. Here, Wayne Waxman argues that this is untrue. Kant
neither asserted nor implied that Euclid and Newton are the final
word in their respective sciences. Rather than supposing that the
psyche derives its fundamental forms from epistemology, he traced
the first principles of ordinary, scientific, mathematical, and
even logical knowledge to the psyche. Aristotelean logic, in
particular, exhausts the sphere of the logical for Kant precisely
because he deduced it entirely from psychological principles of the
unity of consciousness, resulting in a demarcation of logic from
mathematics that would set virtually everything regarded as logic
today on the mathematical side of the ledger. Although Kant derived
his conception of the unity of consciousness from Descartes, he
gave it new life by eliminating its epistemological and
metaphysical baggage, reducing it to its logical essence, and
grounding what remained on a wholly original conception of the a
priori unity of sensibility. Thus, far from departing from the
course charted by British Empiricism, Kant's anatomy of the
understanding is continuous with, indeed the culmination of, the
psychologization of philosophy initiated by Locke, advanced by
Berkeley, and developed to its empirical outrance by Hume. "This is
a superb and very important book. It is certainly one of the best
books written on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason." -Klaus
Steigleder, Professor of Applied Ethics, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(3)
(1)
