The Systematic Unity of Nature as a Transcendental Illusion
Kantian Review 16 (3):429-448 (2011)
| Abstract | The Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic of Kant's first Critique is notorious for two reasons. First, it appears to contradict itself in saying that the idea of the systematic unity of nature is and is not transcendental. Second, in the passages in which Kant appears to espouse the former alternative, he appears to be making a significant amendment to his account of the conditions of the possibility of experience in the Transcendental Analytic. I propose a solution to both of these difficulties. With regard to the first, I argue that Kant does not contradict himself. With regard to the second, I argue that Kant is not making any change to his view of the conditions of the possibility of experience espoused in the Transcendental Analytic. The underlying cause of these apparent problems is also their solution: the transcendental illusion that nature is necessarily systematic. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Kant Transcendental idealism Systematic unity of nature Transcendental illusion | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,672 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesKenneth R. Westphal (1997). Affinity, Idealism and Naturalism: The Stability of Cinnabar and the Possibility of Experience. Kant-Studien 88 (2).
Ian Proops (2010). Kant's First Paralogism. Philosophical Review 119 (4):449–495.
Avery Goldman (2002). The Metaphysics of Kantian Epistemology. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 76:239-252.
Toni Kannisto (2010). Three Problems in Westphal's Transcendental Proof of Realism. Kant-Studien 101 (2):227-246.
Oscar Schmiege (2006). What is Kant's Second Antinomy About. Kant-Studien 97 (3):272-300.
Hao Tang (2011). Transcendental Idealism in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Philosophical Quarterly 61 (244):598-607.
Kenneth R. Westphal (2004). ‘Must the Transcendental Conditions for the Possibility of Experience Be Ideal?’. In C. Ferrini (ed.), Eredità Kantiane (1804–2004): questioni emergenti e problemi irrisolti. Bibliopolis.
Michelle Grier (2001). Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion. Cambridge University Press.
Mark Sacks (2005). The Nature of Transcendental Arguments. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 13 (4):439 – 460.
Sebastian Luft (2007). From Being to Givenness and Back: Some Remarks on the Meaning of Transcendental Idealism in Kant and Husserl. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (3):367 – 394.
Michelle Grier (1998). Transcendental Illusion and Transcendental Realism in Kant's Second Antinomy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (1):47 – 70.
Kenneth R. Westphal (2004). Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism. Cambridge University Press.
Kenneth R. Westphal (2007). ‘Consciousness and its Transcendental Conditions: Kant’s Anti-Cartesian Revolt’. In Lähteenmäki & Remes Heinämaa (ed.), Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy. Springer.
Peter Herissone-Kelly (2007). The Transcendental Ideality of Space and the Neglected Alternative. Kant-Studien 98 (3):269-282.
Gaven Kerr (2011). Kant's Transcendental Idealism. International Philosophical Quarterly 51 (2):195-222.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2011-09-29Total downloads28 ( #44,043 of 549,037 )Recent downloads (6 months)2 ( #37,272 of 549,037 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
