Real Existence, Ideal Necessity

Kant's Compromise, and the Modalities without the Compromise
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020690-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 157, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Reihe: Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte

Analytic philosophy has leveled many challenges to Kant’s ascription of necessary properties and relations to objects in his . Some of these challenges can be answered, it is argued here, largely in terms of techniques belonging to analytic philosophy itself, in particular, to its philosophy of language. This Kantian response is the primary objective of this book. It takes the form of a compromise between the real existence of the objects that we can intuit and that get our knowledge started – dubbed – and the ideality of the necessary properties and relations that Kant ascribes to our sensible of initiators, which he entitles . Whereas the real existence of initiators is independent of us and our senses, the necessity of these properties and relations of appearances is due to their origins in the mind.
The Kantian compromise between real existence and ideal necessity is formulated in terms of David Kaplan’s interpretation of necessity in his article, “Quantifying In” – his response to Quine’s concern that a commitment to such a necessity leads to an acceptance of an unwanted traditional Aristotelian essentialism.
In addition, the book first abstracts and then departs from its interpretation of Kant to provide a realistic account of the relation between existence and necessity.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenberg, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

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