Kant's Theory of Imagination: Bridging Gaps in Judgement and Experience
Oxford University Press (1994)
| Abstract | This book departs from much of the scholarship on Kant by demonstrating the centrality of imagination to Kant's philosophy as a whole. In Kant's works, human experience is simultaneously passive and active, thought and sensed, free and unfree: these dualisms are often thought of as unfortunate byproducts of his system. Gibbons, however, shows that imagination performs a vital function in "bridging gaps" between the different elements of cognition and experience. Thus, the role imagination plays in Kant's works expresses his fundamental insight into the complexity of cognition for finite rational beings such as ourselves. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Imagination (Philosophy Philosophy of mind Ethics, Modern | |||||||||
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| Call number | B2799.I55.G52 1994 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0198240414 9780198240419 | |||||||||
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Mark Stanley Frankel
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This is a good attempt from an analytical perspective to examine an interpretation of Kant which has tended to be the preserve of Continental philosophers. However, it seems to have generated little comment that I can trace. Imagination is the faculty of the gaps in Kant's epistemology - an uncomfortable position if Kant is to be seen as a cognitive realist. But the transcendental component of his dualism is perhaps a matter ultimately of imagination so Gibbons' work is a useful balance to interpretations of Kant which emphasise his attempt to defeat Humean scepticism.
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