: Robert Greenberg
: Real Existence, Ideal Necessity Kant's Compromise, and the Modalities without the Compromise
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110210132
: Kantstudien-ErgänzungshefteISSN
: 1
: CHF 108.00
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: Deutscher Idealismus, 19. Jahrhundert
: English
: 229
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In hisCritique of Pure Reason, Kant argues that we can know what the existing world must be like, but only if it is considered idealistically, which for Kant means relative to our senses.Analytic philosophy, however, tends to be skeptical that the world of our senses must be like anything at all. This book defends Kant in terms of techniques that belong to analytic philosophy itself, in particular, to its philosophy of language. In addition, the book first abstracts and then departs from its interpretation of Kant to provide a realistic account of the idea of what the sensible world must be like.



Robert Greenberg, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.

Frontmatter1
Inhalt9
Preface11
Chapter 1 – General Review19
Chapter 2 – How Our Knowledge Begins35
Chapter 3 – A Criterion of Existence in General59
Chapter 4 – Sensation and Existence79
Chapter 5 – Presupposition and Existence90
Chapter 6 – Kant’s Referential Ambiguity109
Chapter 7 – Kaplan’s Referential Ambiguity122
Chapter 8 – Kaplan’s Interpretation Adapted to Kant132
Chapter 9 – Geometry and Causality142
Chapter 10 – Presupposition and Real Necessity165
Chapter 11 – Derivations of the Real Modalities191
Chapter 12 – Conclusion210
Backmatter217