I - The Elements for Interpreting Kant.- 1 - Space and Time.- Section 1 - Descriptive Representat... more I - The Elements for Interpreting Kant.- 1 - Space and Time.- Section 1 - Descriptive Representation.- Section 2 - Space.- Section 3 - Geometry.- Section 4 - Time.- 2 - Thought.- Section 1 - Necessary Unity.- Section 2 - The Unity of Possible Experience and the Unity of Objects.- 3 - Substance.- Section 1 -Permanence.- Section 2 - Permanence: Further Remarks.- Section 3 - Substance-Based Time.- Section 4 - Substance, Underdetermination, and Inscrutability.- Section 5 - Further Dynamical Issues.- 4 - The World.- Section 1 - Unrestricted General Representation.- Section 2 - Transcendental Idealism.- 5 - The Rework Hypothesis.- II - The Early View.- 1 - The Early Theory of Thought.- Section 1 - The Deduction.- Section 2 - The Second Analogy.- Section 3 - The Fourth Paralogism.- 2 - The Text of the Early View.- Section 1 - The Aesthetic.- Section 2 - The Complete Early Text.- 3 - The Break-Up of the Early View.- III - The Middle View.- 1 - The Middle Theory of Thought.- Section 1 - The Statement of the Middle View.- Section 2 - The Deduction.- Section 3 - Phenomena and Noumena.- 2 - The Text of the Middle View.- Section 1 - The Analogies.- Section 2 - The Complete Middle Text.- IV - The Transition to the Late View - The Mathematical Antinomies.- 1 - The Break-Up of the Middle View over the Second Antinomy.- Section 1 - The Textual Anomalies.- Section 2 - The Arguments of the Second Antinomy.- Section 3 - The Failure of a Resolution and the Shift to the Late Basis.- 2 - The Argument of the Antinomies Against the Middle View.- Section 1 - The Design of the Mathematical Antinomies.- Section 2 - The First Antinomy: Space.- Section 3 - The First Antinomy: Time.- Section 4 - The Revised Second Antinomy.- Section 5 - The Solution of the Antinomies.- Section 6 - The Solution of the Ideas.- V - The Late View.- 1 - The Late Theory of Thought.- Section 1 - The Changes in the Late View.- Section 2 - The Deduction.- Section 3 - Logical Functions, Pure Concepts, and Schemata.- Section 4 - A Priori Knowledge.- 2 - The Text of The Late View.- Section 1 - The Aesthetic.- Section 2 - The Analogies.- Section 3 - Phenomena and Noumena.- Section 4 - What-is-so within Sensibility.- Section 5 - What-is-so beyond Sensibility.- Section 6 - The Complete Late Text.
<jats:p>Scientific measurements of fine-tuning factors, especially the cosmological constan... more <jats:p>Scientific measurements of fine-tuning factors, especially the cosmological constant, have forced non-theists to fall back on anthropic reasoning and multiverse theories to try to explain away the implications of a theistically-designed universe. Whatever its other uses, employing anthropic reasoning in this way is questionable. It is unscientific to posit trillions upon trillions of universes--as many multiverse proponents and string theorists do--in order to try to explain away the fine-tuned existence of our own. Albert Einstein would likely dismiss many current multiverse theories. Yet, might we still live in a multiversal reality? This essay posits such a reality--a Triverse--as a more parsimonious view over popular multiverse theories. The proposed Triverse has some similarity to, but is distinct from, Roger Penrose's "three worlds" in his Shadows of the Mind. A multiversal Triverse reality might also eventually be reconciled with some of the evidence and indicators that support quantum mechanics, and thus help define a more deterministic universe.</jats:p>
Metaphysics in Disarray • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) in his early career worked in the tradition o... more Metaphysics in Disarray • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) in his early career worked in the tradition of continental rationalism. • He wrote that his recollection of David Hume awoke him from his “dogmatic slumber.” • He recognized that metaphysics had not been established as a science, and in fact had made little progress since ancient times. • Philosophers had reached impasses on all the main metaphysical questions. • This is a disastrous result, because metaphysics is supposed to be the “queen of the sciences.” • Kant set out to place metaphysics on a new footing by subjecting the use of “pure reason” to a scathing “critique.”
This elegant, terse, transparently argued monograph is about aesthetic and artistic value. It wea... more This elegant, terse, transparently argued monograph is about aesthetic and artistic value. It wears its central theses on its sleeve. They are: 1. The function of the artworld and the practice of art is to promote aesthetic communication. 2. A work of art is a good work of art to the extent ...
For Kant, geometry studies space which is a pure intuition and at the same time a form of empiric... more For Kant, geometry studies space which is a pure intuition and at the same time a form of empirical intuition. Geometrical statements somehow require or pertain to constructions or productive activity such as drawing, rotating, pointing, bisecting, etc. Space somehow provides the pure manifold which enables thought to pertain to objects. Still more, reality in space is neither finite nor infinite. These are all constraints from Kant’s text on what geometry might be for Kant. The 19th and 20th century have added further constraints on what a justifiable philosophical account of geometry would have to be. It would have to allow for non-Euclidean geometry, for the time parameter making a difference to the spatial geometry (more generally for geometry being space-time geometry) and for a connection between geometry and the distribution of matter. Putting these two classes of constraints together, we get a set of constraints on what a Kantian theory of geometry that is also in itself plausible would have to be. It is such a theory that I should like to begin to present in outline form.
Part I Preliminary Overview Chapter 1. The Reality of the Thinking Self Chapter 2.The Paralogisms... more Part I Preliminary Overview Chapter 1. The Reality of the Thinking Self Chapter 2.The Paralogisms and Transcendental Idealism Part II The Thinking Self Chapter 3. The First Paralogism Chapter 4. The Second Paralogism Chapter 5. Transcendental Self-Consciousness Chapter 6. Other Interpretations of the Paralogisms Part III- The Cognizing Subject Chapter 7. Empirical Apperception Chapter 8. Pure Apperception Part IV The Person as Subject Chapter 9. Apperception and Inner Sense Chapter 10. The Third Paralogism and Kant's Conception of a Person Part V The Subject and Material Reality Chapter 11. The Embodied Subject Chapter 12. The Fourth Paralogism
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2010
Kant's Theory of the Self offers a new understanding of Kant's views of selves and pers... more Kant's Theory of the Self offers a new understanding of Kant's views of selves and persons in the Critique of Pure Reason. Arthur Melnick claims that Kant sees the self as a certain sort of mental action. Melnick spells out his thesis largely phenomenologically. At least at a first ...
We have thoughts of the world by having thoughts of spatio-temporal positioning which, as natural... more We have thoughts of the world by having thoughts of spatio-temporal positioning which, as naturalized, are mechanisms for spatio-temporal constructive output. Even thoughts of past time are such thoughts of positioning by being mechanisms for being beyond stages of temporal constructions. This allows a naturalized realist semantics in which the content of thoughts that are in the head is purported existence anywhere in space and time. A correspondence theory of truth and a truth-conditional theory of meaning derive naturalistically from this basis.
... KANT VS. LAMBERT AND TRENDELENBURG ON THE IDEALITY OF TIME ... In this paper I develop and us... more ... KANT VS. LAMBERT AND TRENDELENBURG ON THE IDEALITY OF TIME ... In this paper I develop and use this model to answer the long-standing objections of Lambert and Trendlenburg against Kant's views, thereby showing the fruitful ness of pursuing this model. ...
I - The Elements for Interpreting Kant.- 1 - Space and Time.- Section 1 - Descriptive Representat... more I - The Elements for Interpreting Kant.- 1 - Space and Time.- Section 1 - Descriptive Representation.- Section 2 - Space.- Section 3 - Geometry.- Section 4 - Time.- 2 - Thought.- Section 1 - Necessary Unity.- Section 2 - The Unity of Possible Experience and the Unity of Objects.- 3 - Substance.- Section 1 -Permanence.- Section 2 - Permanence: Further Remarks.- Section 3 - Substance-Based Time.- Section 4 - Substance, Underdetermination, and Inscrutability.- Section 5 - Further Dynamical Issues.- 4 - The World.- Section 1 - Unrestricted General Representation.- Section 2 - Transcendental Idealism.- 5 - The Rework Hypothesis.- II - The Early View.- 1 - The Early Theory of Thought.- Section 1 - The Deduction.- Section 2 - The Second Analogy.- Section 3 - The Fourth Paralogism.- 2 - The Text of the Early View.- Section 1 - The Aesthetic.- Section 2 - The Complete Early Text.- 3 - The Break-Up of the Early View.- III - The Middle View.- 1 - The Middle Theory of Thought.- Section 1 - The Statement of the Middle View.- Section 2 - The Deduction.- Section 3 - Phenomena and Noumena.- 2 - The Text of the Middle View.- Section 1 - The Analogies.- Section 2 - The Complete Middle Text.- IV - The Transition to the Late View - The Mathematical Antinomies.- 1 - The Break-Up of the Middle View over the Second Antinomy.- Section 1 - The Textual Anomalies.- Section 2 - The Arguments of the Second Antinomy.- Section 3 - The Failure of a Resolution and the Shift to the Late Basis.- 2 - The Argument of the Antinomies Against the Middle View.- Section 1 - The Design of the Mathematical Antinomies.- Section 2 - The First Antinomy: Space.- Section 3 - The First Antinomy: Time.- Section 4 - The Revised Second Antinomy.- Section 5 - The Solution of the Antinomies.- Section 6 - The Solution of the Ideas.- V - The Late View.- 1 - The Late Theory of Thought.- Section 1 - The Changes in the Late View.- Section 2 - The Deduction.- Section 3 - Logical Functions, Pure Concepts, and Schemata.- Section 4 - A Priori Knowledge.- 2 - The Text of The Late View.- Section 1 - The Aesthetic.- Section 2 - The Analogies.- Section 3 - Phenomena and Noumena.- Section 4 - What-is-so within Sensibility.- Section 5 - What-is-so beyond Sensibility.- Section 6 - The Complete Late Text.
<jats:p>Scientific measurements of fine-tuning factors, especially the cosmological constan... more <jats:p>Scientific measurements of fine-tuning factors, especially the cosmological constant, have forced non-theists to fall back on anthropic reasoning and multiverse theories to try to explain away the implications of a theistically-designed universe. Whatever its other uses, employing anthropic reasoning in this way is questionable. It is unscientific to posit trillions upon trillions of universes--as many multiverse proponents and string theorists do--in order to try to explain away the fine-tuned existence of our own. Albert Einstein would likely dismiss many current multiverse theories. Yet, might we still live in a multiversal reality? This essay posits such a reality--a Triverse--as a more parsimonious view over popular multiverse theories. The proposed Triverse has some similarity to, but is distinct from, Roger Penrose's "three worlds" in his Shadows of the Mind. A multiversal Triverse reality might also eventually be reconciled with some of the evidence and indicators that support quantum mechanics, and thus help define a more deterministic universe.</jats:p>
Metaphysics in Disarray • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) in his early career worked in the tradition o... more Metaphysics in Disarray • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) in his early career worked in the tradition of continental rationalism. • He wrote that his recollection of David Hume awoke him from his “dogmatic slumber.” • He recognized that metaphysics had not been established as a science, and in fact had made little progress since ancient times. • Philosophers had reached impasses on all the main metaphysical questions. • This is a disastrous result, because metaphysics is supposed to be the “queen of the sciences.” • Kant set out to place metaphysics on a new footing by subjecting the use of “pure reason” to a scathing “critique.”
This elegant, terse, transparently argued monograph is about aesthetic and artistic value. It wea... more This elegant, terse, transparently argued monograph is about aesthetic and artistic value. It wears its central theses on its sleeve. They are: 1. The function of the artworld and the practice of art is to promote aesthetic communication. 2. A work of art is a good work of art to the extent ...
For Kant, geometry studies space which is a pure intuition and at the same time a form of empiric... more For Kant, geometry studies space which is a pure intuition and at the same time a form of empirical intuition. Geometrical statements somehow require or pertain to constructions or productive activity such as drawing, rotating, pointing, bisecting, etc. Space somehow provides the pure manifold which enables thought to pertain to objects. Still more, reality in space is neither finite nor infinite. These are all constraints from Kant’s text on what geometry might be for Kant. The 19th and 20th century have added further constraints on what a justifiable philosophical account of geometry would have to be. It would have to allow for non-Euclidean geometry, for the time parameter making a difference to the spatial geometry (more generally for geometry being space-time geometry) and for a connection between geometry and the distribution of matter. Putting these two classes of constraints together, we get a set of constraints on what a Kantian theory of geometry that is also in itself plausible would have to be. It is such a theory that I should like to begin to present in outline form.
Part I Preliminary Overview Chapter 1. The Reality of the Thinking Self Chapter 2.The Paralogisms... more Part I Preliminary Overview Chapter 1. The Reality of the Thinking Self Chapter 2.The Paralogisms and Transcendental Idealism Part II The Thinking Self Chapter 3. The First Paralogism Chapter 4. The Second Paralogism Chapter 5. Transcendental Self-Consciousness Chapter 6. Other Interpretations of the Paralogisms Part III- The Cognizing Subject Chapter 7. Empirical Apperception Chapter 8. Pure Apperception Part IV The Person as Subject Chapter 9. Apperception and Inner Sense Chapter 10. The Third Paralogism and Kant's Conception of a Person Part V The Subject and Material Reality Chapter 11. The Embodied Subject Chapter 12. The Fourth Paralogism
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2010
Kant's Theory of the Self offers a new understanding of Kant's views of selves and pers... more Kant's Theory of the Self offers a new understanding of Kant's views of selves and persons in the Critique of Pure Reason. Arthur Melnick claims that Kant sees the self as a certain sort of mental action. Melnick spells out his thesis largely phenomenologically. At least at a first ...
We have thoughts of the world by having thoughts of spatio-temporal positioning which, as natural... more We have thoughts of the world by having thoughts of spatio-temporal positioning which, as naturalized, are mechanisms for spatio-temporal constructive output. Even thoughts of past time are such thoughts of positioning by being mechanisms for being beyond stages of temporal constructions. This allows a naturalized realist semantics in which the content of thoughts that are in the head is purported existence anywhere in space and time. A correspondence theory of truth and a truth-conditional theory of meaning derive naturalistically from this basis.
... KANT VS. LAMBERT AND TRENDELENBURG ON THE IDEALITY OF TIME ... In this paper I develop and us... more ... KANT VS. LAMBERT AND TRENDELENBURG ON THE IDEALITY OF TIME ... In this paper I develop and use this model to answer the long-standing objections of Lambert and Trendlenburg against Kant's views, thereby showing the fruitful ness of pursuing this model. ...
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