The Unity of Understanding
A Study in Kantian Problems
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 15 February 1990
- ISBN 9780198248293
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages184 pages
- Size 221x145x15 mm
- Weight 354 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is about Kant's account of human understanding, of our capacity to form concepts of, and to be conscious of, things in the world. It argues that his insights into what is needed for human understanding conflict with his overall view of the nature of that capacity.
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This book is about Kant`s account of human understanding, of our capacity to form concepts of, and to be conscious of, things in the world. It argues that the conditions which Kant lays down for understanding - conditions about the autonomy of thought, and about the relation of concepts to objects and of language to experience - cannot be satisfied within his overall picture of understanding as `representing something to oneself.'
The argument proceeds through a discussion of the nature of concept-possession and the relation of concepts to objects, to what it is to be conscious of anything, and what it is to follow a rule. Wittgenstein`s insights on these issues have a direct bearing on Kant`s problems. If Kant`s conditions are to be satisfied, understanding must be seen, not as a capacity for mental representation, for having ideas, but as a capacity for action.
`interesting book ... For anyone interested in both Kant and Wittgenstein, in both the theory of intentionality and the philosophy of language, "The Unity of Understanding" will be intriguing and suggestive.'
The Review of Metaphysics
Table of Contents:
Introduction; How are the Concepts of Objects Possible?; A Reconsideration; The Idea of a Transcendental Deduction; Sentience, Apperception, and Language; Consciousness as Rule-Governed; Conclusion.
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