Questions tagged [transcendental-idealism]
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Can Kant be compatible with panpsychism?
Is the transcendental idealism compatible with panpsychism, The view that all things have consciousness?
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Gardner's presentation of Kant on Skepticism
I am working (slowly) through the Critique of Pure Reason, reading Sebastian Gardner's Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason as a secondary source (among others), and ...
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a Solution to The Problem Of Casuality and Thing-in-Themselves (Problem of Affection)
i have been interested in "the problem of affection" in Transcendental Idealism for a while now and a possible solution came to my mind,
Kant says that TIT Causes our Phenomena as if TIT (...
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Kant: Sensibility
I am currently reading through Immanuel Kant: Key Concepts, edited by Dudley and Engelhard, in preparation for tackling the Prolomegna and (possibly) the Critique of Pure Reason, and I am a bit stuck ...
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is there any inconsistancy if i claim thing-in-itselmselves are giving our mind "causality"?
i'm simply testing this out
the "problem of affection" in kant happens because kant says causality is an apriori knowledge
can't we just say, thing-in-itself gives us "causality" ...
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Problem of Affection in Kant's Thing in themselves as Causes, Neo Kantians and Post Kantians Responses
We all know "the problem of affection" raised by Schulze:
"if causality is apriori structure of the mind and exist inside the mind, how can we claim thing-in-themselves cause phenomena ...
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Scott Aikin's "modest, but not self-effacing" transcendental argument
This question is about Scott F. Aikin's 2017 paper "Modest (but not Self-Effacing) Transcendental Arguments".
The full paper is accessible here with a free account, and some ideas regarding ...
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Kantian Subjectivism Contradiction?
Kant rendered the judgments of reason as subjective, neither narrating nor accurately reflecting the reality of things.
"We only sense from external objects, thus perception does not express ...
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Is Conscious Awareness of Phenomenal Experience a Correlate of the Constitutive Activity of Kant's Reason?
In the introduction to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Marcus Weigelt, Weigelt writes, "Reason, although sometimes understood as the faculty that encompasses all thought (for instance when we ...
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Does the Transcendental Dialectic destroy science?
Long story short, probably the most remarkable contribution of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is the notion that the subject plays an important role on the definition of the object.
However, if the ...
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Can there be such a thing as pure a priori thinking?
Having read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and in fact just finishing a second read after some time, I've been trying to develop a suitable "worldview" about the structure of the mind.
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To what extent is Nietzsche an "Idealist?"
I am well aware of Nietzsche's prolonged and often prolific critiques of what he referred to as "Idealism," yet I am curious as to the extent which two of his ideas in particular, namely ...
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What did Kant mean by "pure physics"?
Early in the Prolegomena, Kant says that both pure mathematics and pure physics are examples of a priori cognition. What exactly did he mean by "pure physics"?
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