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Transcendental Idealism, Transcendental Realism, and the Possibility of Objective Reference
… my thesis is to understand why Kant thinks that transcendental idealism can secure empirical realism, the idea that there really exists an objective world that we can come to know through experience. I maintain that, according to Kant, the possibility of coming to know objective reality depends …
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Transcendental Idealism, Transcendental Realism, and the Possibility of Objective Reference
… my thesis is to understand why Kant thinks that transcendental idealism can secure empirical realism, the idea that there really exists an objective world that we can come to know through experience. I maintain that, according to Kant, the possibility of coming to know objective reality depends …
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Topics in Transcendental Dynamics
We study the iteration of a transcendental entire function, f; in particular, the fast escaping set, A(f). This set consists of points that iterate to infinity as fast as possible, and plays a significant role in transcendental dynamics. First we investigate functions for which A(f) has a structure …
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Valuation and transcendental meditation
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The Grounds of Transcendental Idealism
… on the role of ground in the metaphysics of transcendental idealism. In the first two papers, I provide novel reconstructions of Kant’s two main arguments for transcendental idealism. I show that both arguments rely on assumptions about the metaphysics and epistemology of ground that were …
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KANT’S DOCTRINE OF TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM
… 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 Critique of Pure …
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Emerson, Greenough, and the transcendental esthetic
The New England transcendentalists have not generally been considered first and foremost as the founders and champions of an esthetic philosophy in America. They were ministers, most of them, ostensibly concerned more with man's prospects of salvation than with the contemplation of Beauty. …
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
Ralph Waldo Emerson's publication of Nature in 1836 began a process of creating a new condition of American thinking, severed from European cultural and intellectual influences. The subsequent lectures The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address furthered this process, calling for an …
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The Contemporary Relevance of Kant’s Transcendental Psychology
… demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Kant’s transcendental psychology against the orthodoxy of the dominant analytic school of philosophy, in an aim to salvage it from criticisms that resulted in the widespread view that Kant had little to say about the mind that was correct or useful. …
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Bronson Alcott: The Transcendental Reformer as Educator
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The effects of Transcendental Meditation on dream content
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The Transformation of Kant's Transcendental Idealism: Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre
… against the background of Kant's transcendental idealism. Although his system is formulated within the context of the reconstruction of Kant's transcendental idealism, Fichte claims to posses the sole correct interpretation of Kant's view. He further asserts that he understands …
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Content and Concept: An Examination of Transcendental Empiricism
… I critically examine the philosophy of transcendental empiricism. Transcendental empiricism is, among other things, a philosophy of mental content. It attempts to dissolve an epistemological dilemma of mental content by splitting the difference between two diametrically opposed accounts …
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Transcendental Mirrors: Thoreau's Pond, Poe's Sea, and Melville's Ocean
<p> <p>Three seminal 19</p> th-century North American literary works feature bodies of water which serve both as key elements in their narrative structure and as symbolic entities within their meaning systems. The protagonists in Henry David Thoreau’s <em><em>Walden, </em></em>Edgar Allan Poe’s …
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The Central Role of Cognition in Kant's Transcendental Deduction
… concern in the Critique of Pure Reason’s transcendental deduction is empirical cognition. I show how empirical cognition is best understood as “rational sensory discrimination”: the capacity to discriminate sensory objects through the use of concepts and with a sensitivity to the …
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Transcendental Exchange: Alchemical Discourse in Romantic Philosophy and Literature
… project accounts for alchemy in the works of transcendental philosophers and writers as it contributes to some of the most important conversations of the Romantic time period, particularly the reaction against empirical philosophy and the articulation of creative processes. The transcendental …
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Teachers' lived experiences of responsible leadership: a transcendental phenomenological study
… and analyzed according to the processes of transcendental phenomenology with an additional use of mental models as tools for meaning making. The theory of Responsible Leadership for Performance (Lynham, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004), constructed as a system of inputs, process and outputs, framed …
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Transcendental sensus communis: Reflective Foundations of Cognition in Kantian Epistemology
Pre-cognitive experience is important to Kant's epistemology, but for decades, the scholarship tended to leave this aspect aside. Pre-cognitive experience must be reintegrated, and several important works have made progress toward this goal. Some scholars maintain that the distinction between the …
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