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Description

1. xiv, 300 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. Dennis Schulting offers a thoroughgoing, analytic account of the first half of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in the B-edition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason that is different from existing interpretations in at least one important aspect: its central claim is that each of the 12 categories is wholly derivable from the principle of apperception, which goes against the current view that the Deduction is not a proof in a strict philosophical sense and the standard reading that in the Deduction Kant only gives an account of the global applicability of the categories to experience. This novel approach enables a reappraisal of Kant's controversial claim that transcendental self-consciousness is not only a necessary condition of objective experience but also sufficient for it. The book provides an extensive analysis of Kant's theory of transcendental apperception and also explains why the argument of the Transcendental Deduction is both a regressive and a progressive argument.

Subject

1. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
2. Apperception

Contents

1. Introduction. the Categories and Apperception -- The "Herz" Question -- The Quid Juris -- The Master Argument -- The Unity of Thought : On the Guiding Thread -- Apperception and the Categories of Modality -- Apperception and the Categories of Relation -- Apperception and the Categories of Quality -- Apperception and the Categories of Quantity -- From Apperception to Objectivity.

Call number

1. JFD 13-1222

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index.

Author

1. Schulting, Dennis.

Title

1. Kant's deduction and apperception : explaining the categories / Dennis Schulting.

Imprint

1. Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index.

ISBN

1. 9780230358829
2. 0230358829

Research call number

1. JFD 13-1222