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The Bounds of Transcendental Logic

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Authors:
  1. Dennis Schulting

    1. Bavaria, Germany

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  • Examines central topics in current research in Kant's theoretical philosophy such as transcendental idealism, transcendental logic and objective cognition

  • Argues that Kant's transcendental logic and his idealism are inseparable

  • Considers the merits and demerits of the controversial phenomenalist reading of Kant’s idealism

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Dennis Schulting
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Metaphysics of Transcendental Idealism and Conceivability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Apperception, Objectivity, and Idealism

      • Dennis Schulting
      Pages 11-23

    3. Transcendental Idealism and the Metaphysical Two-Aspect Interpretation

      • Dennis Schulting
      Pages 25-45

    4. Transcendental Idealism and Phenomenalism

      • Dennis Schulting
      Pages 47-76

    5. Phenomenalism, Conceivability, and Epistemic Humility

      • Dennis Schulting
      Pages 77-96

  4. The Intimacy Between the Logic of Thought and the Thought of an Object

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. The Unity of Cognition, or, How to Read the Leitfaden (A79)

      • Dennis Schulting
      Pages 99-140

    3. Transcendental Logic and the Logic of Thought

      • Dennis Schulting
      Pages 141-158

    4. Once More Unto the Breach: The Derivation of the Categories From a Principle

      • Dennis Schulting
      Pages 159-170

    5. Categorial Necessity and Categorial Illusion

      • Dennis Schulting
      Pages 171-184

    6. A Last Remark on Objective Validity

      • Dennis Schulting
      Pages 185-197

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 199-204
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About this book

The book addresses two main areas of Kant’s theoretical philosophy: the doctrine of transcendental idealism and various central aspects of the arguments from the Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions, as well as the relation between the deduction argument and idealism.

Among the topics covered are the nature of objective validity, the role and function of transcendental logic in relation to general or formal logic, the possibility of contradictory thoughts, the meaning of the Leitfaden at A79 and the unity of cognition, the two-steps-in-one-proof interpretation and categorial instantiation, categorial illusion, Strawson’s transcendental argument, the persistently perplexing question of the derivation of the categories, and the relation between apperception, objectivity, judgement, and idealism.


With regard to idealism in particular, the focus is on the metaphysical two-aspect interpretation and its problems, on the merits and demerits of the controversial phenomenalist reading of Kant’s idealism, and on the topic of subjectivism and epistemic humility.


In all of the aforementioned topics, the book presents wholly novel interpretations compared to the standard or mainstream interpretations

Reviews

In this book, Dennis Schulting provides robust responses to his critics and sheds important critical light upon recent developments in Kant scholarship, in particular on issues concerning his idealism and transcendental logic. Writing with his usual combination of precision and elegance, his views often involve positioning himself between opposing factions, in the spirit of Kant’s own critical stance. He also exorcises a number of concerns that regularly resurface in Kant scholarship. This book thus goes a long way in assuaging the uneasiness that phenomenalism instils among many, and the worry that there is still a gap in the Transcendental Deduction that needs to be bridged.—Christian Onof, Reader, Imperial College London, and Honorary Fellow in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, London. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bavaria, Germany

    Dennis Schulting

About the author

Dennis Schulting is an independent scholar. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Metaphysics and the History of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.His previous works include Kant’s Radical Subjectivism (2017) and Kantian Nonconceptualism (2016).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Bounds of Transcendental Logic

  • Authors: Dennis Schulting

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71284-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71283-9Published: 30 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71286-0Published: 01 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71284-6Published: 29 September 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 204

  • Topics: German Idealism, Epistemology

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