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Kant's Refutation of Idealism: Once More Unto the Breach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2012

Georges Dicker
Georges Dicker*
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The College at Brockport, State University of New York
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Email: gdicker@brockport.edu
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Abstract

In ‘Kant's Refutation of Idealism’ (Noûs, 47), I defend a version of the Refutation, pioneered by Paul Guyer in Kant and the Claims of Knowledge, whose core idea is that the only way that one can know the order of one's own past experiences, except in certain rare cases, is by correlating them with the successive states of perceived external objects that caused the experiences. Andrew Chignell has offered a probing critique of my reconstruction of Kant's argument (Philosophical Quarterly, 60), and I have responded (Philosophical Quarterly, 61). In a rebuttal of my response, Chignell raises three new objections (Philosophical Quarterly, 61). My purpose in this paper is to reply to these.

Keywords

Jonathan Bennettcausal relationAndrew ChignellPaul GuyerinductionImmanuel Kantmemorymental clockP. F. Strawsontemporal succession
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Kantian Review , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , 08 June 2012 , pp. 191 - 195
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Copyright © Kantian Review 2012

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