Possible Experience: Understanding Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Arthur Collins

Published by University of California Press 1999

Possible Experience

Understanding Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Arthur Collins
Edited by: Arthur Collins

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520921429

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About this book

Arthur Collins's succinct, revisionist exposition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason brings a new clarity to this notoriously difficult text. Until recently most readers, ascribing broadly Cartesian assumptions to Kant, have concluded that the Critique advances an idealist philosophy, because Kant calls it "transcendental idealism" and because the work abounds in apparent confirmations of that interpretation.

Collins maintains not only that this reading of Kant is false but also that it conceals Kant's real achievements. To counter it, he addresses the themes and passages in the Critique that seem to require an idealist thesis and shows how they may be better understood without ascribing any idealist philosophy to Kant. His account coheres with Kant's explicit "refutations" of idealism, it fits Kant's rejection of the imputation of idealism to him by early critics and readers, and it validates Kant's contention that the second edition of the Critique changes the expression but not the doctrine of the first.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Note on Texts and Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIX
1. Kant and the Cartesian Philosophy of Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Subjectivism versus Idealism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
3. Idealism and Transcendental Idealism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
4. Are Things-in-Themselves Noumena? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
5. The Concept of Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
6. "Space Is in Us" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
7. Outer Causes of Perception Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
8. Kant Not a Foundationalist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
9. The "How-Possible" Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
10. The "Clue" for Finding the Categories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
11. The Parallelism of Inner and Outer Sense Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
12 . The Subject of Experience Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
13. How Representations Make Objects Possible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
14. Objects and Empirical Realism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
15. The Idealistic Understanding of Kant's Theoretical Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199

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Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 219
Keywords: Philosophy; Political

eBook

Published: August 31, 1999
ISBN: 9780520921429

Paperback

Planned Publication: August 31, 1999
ISBN: 9780520214996