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The Metaphysics of Transcendental Subjectivity
Descartes, Kant and W. Sellars
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The general topic of this book is the metaphysics of the subject in Kantian transcendental philosophy. A critical appreciation of Kant's achievements requires that we be able to view Kant's positions as transformations of pre-Kantian philosophy, and that we understand the ways in which contemporary philosophy changes the letter of Kantian thought in order to be true to its spirit in a new philosophical horizon. Descartes is important in two respects. One the one hand, he institutes a philosophical movement which can be said to culminate in Kant; on the other hand, Descartes is one of the major opponents against whom Kant argues in establishing his own position. In either case, the Cartesian cogito is a central concern. Wilfred Sellars restates and transforms Kantian positions in the context of contemporary philosophy after the "linguistic turn", using the Platonic metaphor that thought is similar to discourse.
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 5] 1984. xii, 138 pp.
Publishing status: Available | Original publisher:B.R. Grüner Publishing Company
Published online on 14 March 2011
Published online on 14 March 2011
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Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
- Table of contents | pp. v–vi
- Preface | pp. vii–xii
- Introduction | pp. 1–2
- Chapter I. Notes on the History of the Linguistic Model | pp. 3–12
- A. Plato
- B. Aristotle
- C. Augustine and Aquinas
- D. William of Ockham
- E. Suarez
- F. Conclusion
- Chapter II. Descartes | pp. 13–34
- Introduction
- A. Cogitatio and self-awareness
- B. Excursus: The paradox of self-consciousness
- C. Self-awareness and the cogito, ergo sum
- D. Excursus: The Cartesian circle
- E. Cogitatio and idea
- F. Ideas objective and the linguistic model
- G. Thought and the causal order
- H. Conclusion
- Chapter III. Leibniz | pp. 35–44
- A. The concept of representation and the metaphysics of the monad
- B. Sentiment and apperception: an ambiguity
- C. Two forms of apperception
- D. Pure apperception and the concept of the monad
- E. Conclusion
- Chapter IV. Kant | pp. 45–84
- Introduction
- A. Two senses of Anschauung
- B. From formal to transcendental logic
- C. The Transcendental Deduction
- D. The Kantian metaphysics of the thinking subject
- E. Summary and transition
- Chapter V. Sellars | pp. 85–106
- Introduction
- A. The phenomenology of semantic discourse
- B. Transcendental pragmatics?
- C. The intentionalist thesis
- D. Linguistic rules
- E. The Ryleian Myth
- F. Conclusion: The Ryleian Myth and the metaphysics of the subject
- Appendix: Notes on Phenomenological Theories of Judgment and Science | pp. 107–114
- Notes | pp. 115–128
- | pp. 129–134
- Index | pp. 135–138
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