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The Unity of Cognition and the Subjectivist vs. “Transformative” Approaches to the B-Deduction, or, How to Read the Leitfaden (A79)

From the book Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception

  • Dennis Schulting
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732603-017

Abstract

In the context of a critique of James Conant’s important new reading of the main argument of the Deduction, I present my current, most detailed interpretation of the well-known Leitfaden passage at A79,which in my view has been misinterpreted by a host of prominent readers. This new account expands on the account of the Leitfaden I gave in Chapter 5 of Kant’s Deduction From Apperception. While I agree with Conant’s critique of what he calls the ‘layer-cake’ reading of the Deduction argument, in this new account I make clearer my position on why the unity of judgement, in which concepts and intuitions are a priori synthetically unified, is wholly determined in virtue of the unity of apperception as the unitary function of the understanding, without this leading to a strong form of conceptualism such as that of Conant and others.

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From the book
Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception
Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception

Chapters in this book (28)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Abbreviations and Citations
Introduction
The Sources of Apperception
Apperzeption bei Leibniz und Kant
Bewusstsein und innerer Sinn bei Baumgarten: Ein Beitrag zu Kants Begriff der Apperzeption?
David Hume und René Descartes. Über Form und Struktur der Deduktion der Kategorien
Lamberts Postulate als Quelle der Synthesis Kants
J. B. Merians Auffassung der Apperzeption. Eine Quelle für Kant?
Gefühl in Kant’s Gefühl eines Daseins: Clues from Tetens and Feder
Developments in Kant’s Thought
Consciousness, Inner Sense and Self-Consciousness in the 1760s
Von den Grentzen der Sinnlichkeit und der Vernunft zur Idee der Critick der reinen Vernunft. Lamberts Einfluss auf Kants Denken zwischen 1770 und 1772
The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in the Reflections of the Duisburg Nachlass (ca. 1775)
The A and B Deductions
Apperzeption und Natur. Zur transzendentalen Deduktion der Kategorien bei Kant
The Subjective Deduction and Kant’s Methodological Skepticism
Zwischen Sinnlichkeit und Verstand. Kants Kategoriendeduktion und die Funktionen der Einbildungskraft
The Proof-Structure of Kant’s A-Edition Objective Deduction
The Unity of Cognition and the Subjectivist vs. “Transformative” Approaches to the B-Deduction, or, How to Read the Leitfaden (A79)
The Transcendental Synthesis of the Imagination and the Structure of the B Deduction
Kant’s Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions of the Categories: Tasks, Steps, and Claims of Identity
Kant’s Enactivism
Apperception and Self-Knowledge
Apperception as “Radical Faculty”
Wie beweist Kant die „Realität“ unseres äußeren Sinnes?
Selbsterkenntnis: Eine kantische Strategie
Knowledge, Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity: Transcendental and Empirical Arguments
Wie erfahren wir uns selbst sinnlich? Ein Lösungsvorschlag zu Kants Paradox der Selbstaffektion
Index of Names
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