This book offers a radically new account of the development and
structure of the central arguments of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason:
the defense of the objective validity of such categories as substance,
causation, and independent existence. Paul Guyer makes far more
extensive use than any other commentator of historical materials from
the years leading up to the publication of the Critique and
surrounding its revision, and he shows that the work which has come
down to us is the result of some striking and only partially resolved
theoretical tensions. Kant had originally intended to demonstrate the
validity of the categories by exploiting what he called 'analogies of
appearance' between the structure of self-knowledge and our knowledge
of objects. The idea of a separate 'transcendental deduction',
independent from the analysis of the necessary conditions of empirical
judgements, arose only shortly before publication of the Critique in
1781, and distorted much of Kant's original inspiration. Part of what
led Kant to present this deduction separately was his invention of a
new pattern of argument - very different from the 'transcendental
arguments' attributed by recent interpreters to Kant - depending on
initial claims to necessary truth.
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ISBN
9780511872198
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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