Questions tagged [transcendental-idealism]
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Is there a fundamental pure a priori "object"?
I have been brought to this question by a reading of the first parts of the Husserlian "Prolegomena" in Logical Investigations Vol. 1.
Therein Husserl undertakes a discussion of conceptions ...
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Confusion about Allison's argument regarding Kant's claim of the syntheticity of an expression of the synthetic principle
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant once expressed his synthetic principle in such a manner:
"The synthetic proposition, that every different empirical consciousness must be combined into a ...
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How does transcendental philosophy solve the problem of objective validity?
I can't seem to grasp how transcendental philosophers like Kant or Husserl (or even Descartes) can claim objectivity for their claims? It seems to me as a broader problem (of knowledge) of other minds....
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Kant , phenomena and noumena?
Kant draws a dividing line between phenomena, which are perceptions that are formed through our senses after the mind organizes them, and noumena, which is “reality in itself” that remains elusive to ...
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Hegel vs Kant - meaning of "transcendent"
For Kant, the "transcendent", is that which lies beyond what our
faculty of knowledge can legitimately know. Hegel's counter-argument
to Kant was that to know a boundary is also to be aware ...
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Let's say Kant was right about Transcendental Idealism, what further conclusions would you come to about reality and our existence?
So here are some quotes from Schopenhauer about Kant's views:
"Transcendental is the philosophy that makes us aware of the fact that the first and essential laws of this world that are presented ...
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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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