Objectivity after Kant: Its Meaning, its Limitations, its Fateful Omissions - Softcover

Vijver, Gertrudis Van De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3487148978 ISBN 13: 9783487148977

Verlag: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2013

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Reseña del editor:

The constraint is the possibility - this was the idea behind a conference that took place in Gent (Belgium) in 2010, under the title "Yes we Kant! Critical reflections on objectivity", and where many of the papers included in this volume were first presented. The questions addressed there all regarded the nature and meaning of objectivity, and how and whether Immanuel Kants theory of constitution can still prove relevant to such philosophical concerns. This involves, of course, careful exegesis of Kants works, but as the Prussian sage himself recognised: it is the spirit, and not the letter of a philosophers oeuvre that one should seek to grasp. This volume, then, seeks to explore to what extent the idea that the constraint is the possibility captures the spirit of transcendental philosophy. In the "Critique of Pure Reason", this idea finds expression in the metaphor of the dove, who regrets that air resistance keeps him from flying ever higher, but forgets that it is this same resistance that keeps him aloft. In much the same way, the limitations and constraints on knowledge may be the very conditions of possibility for objectivity, and not the reasons for its impossibility.

Biografía del autor:

Gertrudis Van de Vijver is a professor of philosophy at the UniversiteitGent in Belgium. Her work hasbeen published in"Foundations of Science," "Idealistic Studies," and "Psychoanalytic Perspectives"." "Boris Demarest is a professor of philosophy at the Universiteit Gent in Belgium. His work has been published in "Ludus Vitalis.""

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• Verlag: Georg Olms Verlag AG
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3487148978
• ISBN 13: 9783487148977
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304