Goodbye, Kant!
What Still Stands of the Critique of Pure Reason
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2013
146 pages
978-1-4384-4810-7 (ISBN)
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A penetrating and freewheeling evaluation of Kant's magnum opus.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Total Illustrations: 15
Total Illustrations: 15
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978-1-4384-4810-7 (9781438448107)
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Maurizio Ferraris is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin in Italy. His many books include Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces, also translated by Richard Davies. Richard Davies is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bergamo, Italy, and author of Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue.
Content
List of Figures
Introduction
1. Kant's revolution
Why start a revolution
The rationalists and the Library of Babel
The empiricists and Funes the Memorious
Refounding metaphysics by overturning the point of view
2. The basic claims
The scheme of the work
The metaphysics of experience
Five ontological theses
Two epistemological theses
Where to find them
3. What is inherited (Examination)
New wine in old bottles
Kant's metaphysics
The models of the Critique of Pure Reason
The naturalization of physics
Consequences
4. What is novel (Examination)
Kant and the platypus
Phenomenon and noumenon
Deduction, schematism, and imagination
The hundred thalers
Synthetic a priori judgments
Are synthetic a priori judgments possible?
Dogmas of empiricism and dogmas of transcendentalism
5. The Transcendental Fallacy (Examination)
A semi-catastrophe
The purloined letter
A mind-dependent world
An avoidable fallacy
6. Conceptual Schemes and Phenomena
Over-powerful spectacles
The Thesis of Conceptual Schemes
Are intuitions without concepts blind?
Are concepts without intuitions empty?
The Thesis of the Phenomena
7. Space and Time
What is the Transcendental Aesthetic?
Space
Time
The meaning of mathemathization
8. Self, Substance, and Cause
Self: The world as representations
Substance
Cause
9. Logical apparatus (Examination)
A complicated contrivance
First Gadget: Judgments and Categories (Metaphysical deduction)
Second Gadget: Deduction
Deduction A: Theory of knowledge
Deduction B: Transcendental psychology
Third Gadget: The Schematism
How a schema works: Kant's hints
How a schema works: A speculative hypothesis
The timeline
Why it doesn't work
Could it have worked?
Fourth Gadget: Principles
Afterword on reciprocal action
10. From phenomena to screwdrivers
The deduction of naturalization
The Critique of Practical Reason
The Critique of Judgment
11. Reckoning with the revolution
A spectre is haunting Europe
Matrix
Kant and Talleyrand
An Iroquois in Paris
From Kant to Kafka
Notes
Index
Introduction
1. Kant's revolution
Why start a revolution
The rationalists and the Library of Babel
The empiricists and Funes the Memorious
Refounding metaphysics by overturning the point of view
2. The basic claims
The scheme of the work
The metaphysics of experience
Five ontological theses
Two epistemological theses
Where to find them
3. What is inherited (Examination)
New wine in old bottles
Kant's metaphysics
The models of the Critique of Pure Reason
The naturalization of physics
Consequences
4. What is novel (Examination)
Kant and the platypus
Phenomenon and noumenon
Deduction, schematism, and imagination
The hundred thalers
Synthetic a priori judgments
Are synthetic a priori judgments possible?
Dogmas of empiricism and dogmas of transcendentalism
5. The Transcendental Fallacy (Examination)
A semi-catastrophe
The purloined letter
A mind-dependent world
An avoidable fallacy
6. Conceptual Schemes and Phenomena
Over-powerful spectacles
The Thesis of Conceptual Schemes
Are intuitions without concepts blind?
Are concepts without intuitions empty?
The Thesis of the Phenomena
7. Space and Time
What is the Transcendental Aesthetic?
Space
Time
The meaning of mathemathization
8. Self, Substance, and Cause
Self: The world as representations
Substance
Cause
9. Logical apparatus (Examination)
A complicated contrivance
First Gadget: Judgments and Categories (Metaphysical deduction)
Second Gadget: Deduction
Deduction A: Theory of knowledge
Deduction B: Transcendental psychology
Third Gadget: The Schematism
How a schema works: Kant's hints
How a schema works: A speculative hypothesis
The timeline
Why it doesn't work
Could it have worked?
Fourth Gadget: Principles
Afterword on reciprocal action
10. From phenomena to screwdrivers
The deduction of naturalization
The Critique of Practical Reason
The Critique of Judgment
11. Reckoning with the revolution
A spectre is haunting Europe
Matrix
Kant and Talleyrand
An Iroquois in Paris
From Kant to Kafka
Notes
Index
