The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds: New Essays on Kant's Metaphysics and EpistemologyKarl Schafer, Nicholas F. Stang The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds represents a new wave of interest in 'the metaphysical Kant'. In recent decades Kant scholars have increasingly become skeptical of interpreting Kant as a philosopher who wished to truly "leave metaphysics behind". The contributors to this volume share a common commitment to the idea that Kant's philosophy cannot be properly understood without careful attention to its metaphysical presuppositions and, in particular, to how those metaphysical presuppositions are compatible with Kant's critique of more "dogmatic" forms of metaphysical thought. The authors approach Kant's thought from a wide variety of different perspectives - emphasizing not just the familiar Leibnizian background to Kant's metaphysics, but also its broadly Aristotelian underpinnings and its relationship with metaphysical themes in post-Kantian German Idealism. Similarly, although most of the essays in this volume relate in some way to the familiar question of how best to interpret Kant's transcendental idealism, they also deal with a wide range of other topics, including Kant's modal metaphysics, his views on the continuum, his epistemology of the a priori, and the foundations of his "metaethical" views. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Being Realistic about Kants Idealism | 16 |
Schopenhauers Transcendental Aesthetic | 45 |
Relation to an Object The Role of the Categories | 70 |
Kant on Concepts Intuitions and Sensible Synthesis | 90 |
A Transcendental Argument for the Principle of Possibility | 116 |
Kant on the Epistemology of the Obvious | 132 |
How Does Kant Conceive of SelfConsciousness? | 158 |
Kants Appearances as ObjectDependent Senses | 217 |
Kants Conception of Cognition and Our Knowledge of Things in Themselves | 248 |
Noumena as Grounds of Phenomena | 279 |
Thing and Object Towards an Ecumenical Reading of Kants Idealism | 296 |
Kants OneWorld Phenomenalism How the Moral Features Appear | 337 |
Kants Enigmatic Transition Practical Cognition of the Supersensible | 360 |
Kants Derivation of the Moral Ought from a Metaphysical Is | 382 |
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