Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (Cambridge Paperback Library)
by Paul Guyer
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Paul Guyer is Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University, USA. He is the author of nine books on Kant, including Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979). Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (1987). Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (2007), and Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume (2008), as show more well as a translator and the editor of numerous anthologies of work on Kant. He is also the author of A History of Modern Aesthetics in three volumes (2014). show less
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- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
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- Philosophy, Nonfiction, History
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- 121.092 — Philosophy and Psychology Epistemology (how do you know what you know?) Epistemology (Theory of knowledge) Epistemology -- Subdivisions Biography; History By Place Biography
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- B2799 .K7 .G88 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Modern By region or country
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