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Kant on Personhood
Kant is clear that we owe duties to persons, chief among them the duty to treat persons as ends and never as mere means. But the very ability to act with respect for this duty is grounded on the prior ability to distinguish between persons and non-persons. How is this possible given Kant’s view …
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An Epicurean Kant
… this ""whole theory"", I begin by exploring Kant's interest in Epicurus and the Stoics, particularly relative to his discussion of the proper relation of happiness and virtue in the summum bonum , his use of the postulates of pure practical reason, and his deployment of the concept of …
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Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility
In contrast to his rationalist predecessors, Kant insists that feeling has a pos- itive role to play in moral life. But the exact nature of this role is far from clear. As much as Kant insists that moral action must proceed from a feeling of respect, he maintains with equal insistence that the …
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Kant and the Neglected Alternative
… 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 Alternative maintains that this argument is a failure. …
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Prudence and providence in Kant
… the postulate of God’s existence) in Kant’s ethics, political philosophy, and moral theology. Kant famously breaks with the eudaimonistic tradition by rejecting the principle of happiness from his practical philosophy. Kant understands prudence as providing a means to happiness, thus …
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Space, time, ether, and Kant
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Knowledge and Cognition in Kant
Kant’s legacy, according to contemporary epistemology textbooks, is a theory about the possibility of synthetic a priori knowledge and the status of our experiential knowledge. Much of Kant’s moral philosophy is similarly concerned with the possibility of practical knowledge. Thus, claims about …
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Kant And The Conservation Of Matter
This dissertation is an examination of Kant's rather notorious claim that natural science, or physics, has a priori principles, understood as the claim that physics is constrained by rules warranted by the essential nature of thought. The overall direction of this study is towards examining Kant's …
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Kant on the Progression of Representation
Recently, the key point of contention in Kant scholarship has revolved around a question concerning whether, for Kant, intuitions can play their role of presenting objects to the mind without the discursive activity of the intellect. According to 'conceptualist' interpretations, intuitions depend …
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Kant and the Universal Claims of Reason
… of my thesis is to defend what I take to be Kant's internalist theory of moral obligation. I argue that any defense of Kant on this score, requires a defense of Kant's theory of freedom, as well as the Kantian claim that reason can function as a motive cause of behaviour. In defense of this …
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KANT ON THE INACCESSIBILITY OF NON-SENSIBLE REALITY
… provide a contribution to the ongoing debate on Kant’s transcendental idealism, more precisely on his stance towards non-sensible reality.
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Kant and the Nonspatiality of Things in Themselves
ABSTRACT Kant says that space has no independently real existence. What he means is that apart from the human mind, space is not real. Of course, it is real to us, he argues—in fact, space is the very condition that makes possible an experience of objects in space. However, space and time are mere …
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Twelve-Tone Identity: Adorno Reading Schoenberg through Kant
… be seen in light of his criticism of Immanuel Kant. Critiquing Kant’s concept of Enlightenment and his dualist philosophy, Adorno also critiques common misconceptions about Kant's work in bourgeois society. Similarly, in Schoenberg's oeuvre Adorno finds radical musical creation but also a …
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Subjectivity and Selfhood in Kant, Fichte and Heidegger
Kant once said that the "whole field of philosophy" is guided by the fundamental question, "What is the human being?" Kant himself, and even more so his Idealist successors, addressed this question by offering transcendental theories of human subjectivity. My dissertation explores the philosophical …
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Perception and cognition : insights from Kant and cognitive science
… I begin with a critical analysis of Immanuel Kant’s views on consciousness. I identify a novel thread of Kant’s use of “consciousness,” which denotes the explicit knowledge of what was formerly known by the subject only implicitly. I distinguish this third notion from Kant’s concepts of …
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Foucault, Kant, Deleuze, and the problem of political agency
… placed in relation to the work of Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze. I argue that the key to Foucault's political thought is contained in two crucial but neglected concepts, <em>verticality </em>and<em>transversality,</em> and that the systematic exposition of these concepts yields an account …
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