Kantian Humility Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves

Name: Kantian Humility Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
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ISBN: 9780199243174

ISBN-10: 0199243174

ISBN-13: 9780199243174

Edition: 2001

Authors: Rae Langton

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Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Kant says that phenomena--things as we know them--consist 'entirely of relations', by which he means forces. His claim that we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility: we have no knowledge of the intrinsic properties of substances. This humility has its roots in some plausible philosophical beliefs: an empiricist belief in the receptivity of human knowledge and a metaphysical belief in the…

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List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Australian National University



Introduction



An Old Problem



Three Kantian Theses



Substance and Phenomenal Substance



Leibniz and Kant



Kant's Rejection of Reducibility



Fitting the Pieces Together



A Comparison with Locke



Kant's 'Primary' Qualities



The Unobservable and the Supersensible



Realism or Idealism?


Bibliography


Index