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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Critique of Pure Reason"”.
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A Standpoint for Critique: The Metaphorical Status of Critique in Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'
<p>I argue that critique is an epistemologically significant Kantian metaphor for transcendental self-consciousness. This claim is complex, involving two antecedent propositions: (1) there is a Kantian theory of metaphor; (2) critique is such a metaphor.</p> <p> In Chapter 1, I argue that …
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Kant on Embodiment: Lessons from the Critique of Pure Reason and the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
My thesis offers an original reading of Kant’s theory of cognition and the body’s role in it. In the Critique of Pure Reason and the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, Kant’s subject is shown to cognize, and be cognized, through embodied activity in the material world. I begin by …
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Understanding Kant’s architectonic method in the critique of pure reason and its role in the work of Gilles Deleuze
How we read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has a huge influence on how convincing we find the parts of which it is composed. This thesis will argue that by taking its arguments and concepts in isolation we neglect the unifying architectonic method that Kant employed. Understanding this text as a …
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Kant's Critical Attitude Towards The Only Possible Argument
A great deal of attention has been paid to Kant's claim in the Critique of Pure Reason that all theoretical attempts to demonstrate the existence of God must necessarily end in failure. What has received considerably less attention is the fact that throughout his pre-Critical period, i.e., the …
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Kant's criticism of the cosmological argument
This thesis sets out to examine Kant's criticism of the cosmological argument. Kant's general philosophical views are expounded and his reasons for the rejection of metaphysics are explained. In the course of the argument Kant's own analysis of the cosmological proof is discussed. He laid great …
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Kant and the Neglected Alternative
… work, I conduct a reconstruction and evaluation of the Neglected Alternative objection to Immanuel Kant's philosophy. Kant famously argues in the Transcendental Aesthetic section of the Critique of Pure Reason that space and time are subjective forms of human intuition, and the Neglected …
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KANT’S DOCTRINE OF TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM
My dissertation proposes a novel interpretation of Kant’s doctrine of transcendental idealism as presented in the Critique of Pure Reason. I aim to give a consensus interpretation by overcoming past errors in interpreting this doctrine. I support my interpretation through a textual exegesis of the …
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Prolegomenon to a Neo-Kantian Student Heuristic
<p>The author attempts an in-depth study of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in order to prepare a text for college students in composition courses. It was to be a text designed to help students come to terms with some of the more perplexing problems of man's intellectual life by providing …
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Transcendental sensus communis: Reflective Foundations of Cognition in Kantian Epistemology
… the distinction between the A- and B- editions of the Critique of Pure Reason largely relates to the role of pre-cognitive experience in Kant's system. I offer an account of what Kant calls the "obscure functions of understanding," drawing from the third Critique, the Anthropology, and other …
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The nature of synthetic judgements a priori and the categorical imperative
… to show that the five different formulations of the categorical imperative that Kant provides are all equivalent, in spite of their apparently differing meanings. To meet this goal I propose to display the nature of synthetic judgements a priori, since Kant claimed that the categorical …
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Gilles Deleuze's Poetics of Cinema: Preparatory Remarks for a Re-Reading of Cinema 1 and 2
The purpose of this thesis is to lay the groundwork for an interpretation of Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image as works of film poetics. English-language commentators tend to treat the books primarily as philosophical works, and only secondarily as …
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Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core
… and Rationalism by arguing for the necessity of a passive faculty, sensibility, and an active faculty, understanding, in order for cognition to obtain. Kant argues in favor of sense impression found in standard empirical philosophies while advocating conceptual necessities like those found in …
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The Power of Reason: Kant’s Empirical Study of the Mind
This thesis is about Kant’s account of reason. In the *Critique of Pure Reason*, Kant introduces reason as an infinitely demanding faculty that seeks complete explanations for all observable phenomena. This account of reason is essential to Kant’s discussion in the Transcendental Dialectic and …
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Kant's Metaphysical Deduction and the Intellectual Origin of the Categories
Hume famously argues that we have no idea of objectively necessary connections between existents. But in his metaphysical deduction of the categories, Kant seeks to vindicate our right to use the categories to think of such connections. Kant holds that certain acts of the understanding make …
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Non-Being and Memory: A Critique of Pure Difference in Derrida and Deleuze
… philosophy split has restricted viable readings of today's psychological research. My project (within the philosophy of psychology) is to provide these readings. Specifically, in this dissertation I analyze the data and the interpretations of a large number of contemporary memory research …
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Politics, history, critique: An interpretation of Kant's political philosophy in light of his critical-regulative method.
<p>My dissertation offers the following three benefits with regard to a renewed interpretation of Kant's political philosophy:</p> <p>1)I will demonstrate that Kant's essays on history and politics are not dogmatic, unimportant, or of minor significance, but employ a critical principle of …
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Kant on Time: Self-Affection and the Constitution of Objectivity in Transcendental Philosophy
… consists in providing a novel interpretation of the role time plays in Kant’s transcendental idealism. A significant part of Kant scholarship on the Critiques tends to assume that time, as understood in transcendental philosophy, is solely a formal property of intuition. This assumption has …
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Soul, World, God: Hegel’s Vorbegriff to the ‘Science of Logic’ in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
… commentary on the Vorbegriff to the 1830 edition of Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. The Vorbegriff is a frequently overlooked text and is often mistaken for an introduction, but it has a significant role to play in undergirding and justifying the remainder of the …
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Kant's theory of cognition: an interpretation of the argument of the transcendental deduction
The purpose of Kant’s transcendental deduction in the Critique of Pure Reason is to prove that certain concepts not derived from experience (called categories) apply to and govern the objects of our experience. Kant seeks to dispel Hume’s skeptical assertion that concepts such as cause and …
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Introducing a Kantian interpretation of quantum physics : in accordance with Kant's philosophy of science in the Critique of the power of judgment, reinterpreted and reworked with special attention to the supersensible realm
In this thesis I confront the problem of indeterminism in quantum physics. The first pioneers accepted indeterminism as part of their Copenhagen interpretation and it was incorporated in Von Neumann's formulation (as the "projection postulate"). But how deep does this indeterminism go? With the …