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Author:   Thomas C. Vinci (Professor of Philosophy (Retired/Adjunct), Professor of Philosophy (Retired/Adjunct), Dalhousie University, Halifax)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 17.70cm
Weight:   0.481kg
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9780199381166

ISBN 10:   019938116
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: A PRIORI FORM VS. PURE REPRESENTATION IN KANT'S THEORY OF INTUITION 1: THE A PRIORI FORM OF INTUITION AND THE CONTAINER VIEW SECTION 2: PURE FORM OF INTUITIONS VS. PURE FORMAL INTUITION 3. SUMMARIES OF THE THREE GROUNDS FOR THE CONTAINER VIEW CHAPTER 2: THE METAPHYSICAL EXPOSITIONS AND TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM I 1. INTRODUCTION 2: THREE ACCOUNTS OF THE METAPHYSICAL EXPOSITIONS SECTION 3: KANT'S ARGUMENTS FROM GEOMETRY IN THE PROLEGOMENA SECTION 4: THE NON-GEOMETRICAL EXPOSITIONS 5. WHY THE ""GENERAL CONCEPT OF SPACES IN GENERAL"" IS NOT A CONCEPT FOR KANT. CHAPTER 3: KANT'S THEORY OF INTENTIONALITY 1. KANTIAN INTENTIONALITY AS BRENTANO-INTENTIONALITY. 2. KANT'S PROJECTIONISM 3. SPATIAL FORM AND THE REPRESENTATIONAL CAPACITY OF INTUITIONS IN GENERAL 3.1 The map analogy 3. 2 Applying the Map-analogy to Kant's Theory of Intentionality CHAPTER 4: KANT'S THEORY OF GEOMETRY AND TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM II SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 2. KANT'S DOCTRINE OF GEOMETRICAL METHOD IN THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON 2.1. Kant's geometrical method 2.2 The necessity of geometry as counterfactual necessity. 3. ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATIONS 4. OBJECTIONS 4.1 Objections from Friedman 4.2 Objections from Waxman. 5. THE TRANSCENDENTAL EXPOSITIONS OF THE CONCEPTS OF SPACE 6. KANT AND MODERN PHYSICS CHAPTER 5: THE TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION OF THE CATEGORIES I 1: INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS THE TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION OF THE CATEGORIES ABOUT? 2. WHAT ARE THE SUBJECTIVE CONDITIONS OF THINKING? 3. THE AFFINITY ARGUMENT 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Affinity Argument: background 3.3 The Affinity Argument 4. TRANSITION TO THE B-EDITION DEDUCTION CHAPTER 6: APPEARANCES, INTUITIONS AND JUDGMENTS OF PERCEPTION 1: APPEARANCES: THE UNDETERMINED OBJECTS OF EMPIRICAL INTUITION. 1.1 Are appearances constituted by the understanding?: a preliminary argument. 1.2. What are appearances? 2. INTUITIONS IN GENERAL 2.1.Introduction 2.2. Section 15: Synthesis, Intuitions, Judgments 3. JUDGMENTS OF PERCEPTION, THE DOCTRINE OF SCHEMATISM AND AESTHETICALLY UNIFIED INTUITIONS 3.1. Judgments of perception in the Prolegomena 3.2 Longuenesse and the case for finding a doctrine of judgments of perception in the Critique of Pure Reason 3.3 Judgments of perception, empirical schemata and empirical concepts 3.4 Aesthetically unified intuitions 3.5 The problem of sensory illusion for Kant CHAPTER 7: TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION II: THE B-EDITION TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION. PART I: THE FIRST HALF OF KANT'S B-EDITION TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION OF THE CATEGORIES 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE ANALYTICAL POWER OF APPERCEPTION 3. THE PROPOSITIONAL FORM OF JUDGMENTS OF PERCEPTION 4. PROBLEMS FROM SECTIONS 17 AND 18, REVISITED 5. THE ANALYTICAL PRINCIPLE OF APPERCEPTION 6. SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST PART OF THE B-EDITION DEDUCTION 7. CONCLUSION OF PART I AND TRANSITION TO PART II PART II: THE SECOND HALF OF KANT'S B-EDITION TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION OF THE CATEGORIES 1. Why the Deduction in the B-edition Needs a Second Part 2. The Second Part of the B-edition Deduction 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Argument of Section 26. 2.2.1 Introduction 2.2.2: Proving that the unity of space is an intellectual condition: the subjective phase of the Deduction in the B-edition 2.2.3: The proof that the unity of space has empirical objective validity; the proof of Nomic Prescriptivism; and the proof that the unity of empirical intuitions is the unity of the categories. 2.2. 4. Kant's explanation of how logically unified empirical intuitions come to be in accord with the unity of space and time 2.2.5 Some final thoughts on the strength of Kant's argument PRIMARY SOURCES OF KANT'S WRITINGS REFERENCES INDEX"

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[H]is primary - and very substantial - contributions are to give a deep new analysis of Kant's theory of geometry, provide a novel interpretation of the relation between self-consciousness and apperception and most of all to offer a moderating and mediating voice in the conceptualist-nonconceptualist debate. For these reasons, his book is very much worth reading and engaging. Jeffrey L. Wilson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online ...Vinci has successfully produced a work that will push students of the B-Deduction, and of the CPR in general, to think more carefully about how some of the more complicated portions of Kant's text can be connected. Mary Domski, Journal of the History of Philosophy

...Vinci has successfully produced a work that will push students of the B-Deduction, and of the CPR in general, to think more carefully about how some of the more complicated portions of Kant's text can be connected. * Mary Domski, Journal of the History of Philosophy * [H]is primary - and very substantial - contributions are to give a deep new analysis of Kant's theory of geometry, provide a novel interpretation of the relation between self-consciousness and apperception and most of all to offer a moderating and mediating voice in the conceptualist-nonconceptualist debate. For these reasons, his book is very much worth reading and engaging. * Jeffrey L. Wilson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online *

[H]is primary - and very substantial - contributions are to give a deep new analysis of Kant's theory of geometry, provide a novel interpretation of the relation between self-consciousness and apperception and most of all to offer a moderating and mediating voice in the conceptualist-nonconceptualist debate. For these reasons, his book is very much worth reading and engaging. Jeffrey L. Wilson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

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Thomas C. Vinci (B.A, Toronto; Ph.D, Pitt.) has spent 35 years in the Philosophy Department at Dalhousie University, from which he retired as Professor in 2012. The author of Cartesian Truth (OUP 1998), he has also published on Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz and Kant, and in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of science and decision theory. He is the organizer of the Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy and is married, with three children, and lives in Atlantic Canada.

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