Kant’s Deduction From Apperception: An Essay on the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories

373 Pages·2018·3.489 MB·English

by  Dennis Schulting

Dennis Schulting
Kant’s Deduction From Apperception
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:12 PM
Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte
Im Auftrag der Kant-Gesellschaft
herausgegeben von
Manfred Baum, Bernd Dörflinger
und Heiner F. Klemme
Band 203
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:12 PM
Dennis Schulting
Kant’s Deduction
From Apperception
An Essay on the Transcendental Deduction
of the Categories
Second Revised Edition
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:12 PM
First published 2012 as „Kant’s Deduction and Apperception. Explaining the Categories“
(Palgrave Macmillan)
ISBN 978-3-11-058269-7
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-058430-1
e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-058287-1
ISSN 0340-6059
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018950636
Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie;
detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de.
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck
www.degruyter.com
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:12 PM
FOR CRISTIANA
per sempre
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:12 PM
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:12 PM
Ihavetodomerelywithreasonitselfanditspurethinking[ihremreinenDenken];
to gain exhaustive acquaintance with them I need not seek far beyond myself,
because it is in myself that I encounter them, and common logic already also
givesmeanexampleofhowthesimpleactsofreasonmaybefullyandsystem-
atically enumerated.
—Critique of Pure Reason, Axiv
Metaphysics is not a science, not scholarship,but rather merely understanding
acquainted with itself [bloss der sich selbst kennende Verstand], […] it is logical
self-cognition [logische Selbsterkenntnis].
—R4284, AA 17:495 (NF:125)
Themindis[…]itselfthearchetype[…]ofsuchasynthesisthroughoriginaland
not through derivative thinking.
—Duisburg Nachlass, R4674, AA 17: 647 (NF:160)
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:12 PM
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:12 PM
Contents
Preface to the New Edition XIII
Preface to the First Edition XXV
Key to Abbreviations of Cited Primary Works XXVII
 Introduction: The Categories and Apperception 1
 The ‘Herz’ Question 20
 The Quid Juris 28
. Introduction 28
. Deduction: Justification or Proof? 31
. Original Acquisition, Reflective Judgement and the Categories: A
Critical Remark on Longuenesse 41
.. Kant on ‘Reflective’ and ‘Determinative’ Judgement 42
.. Reflection and the Categories 44
.. A Lockean Deduction? 51
Excursus: The ‘Quaestio Facti’ and Empirical Deduction 
.. A Conflation of Levels 59
 The Master Argument 63
. Introduction 63
. The Ostensible Gap 64
. The Reciprocity Thesis 70
. Is the Deduction a Regressive or Progressive Argument? 81
. On Guyer 101
 The Unity of Thought: On the Guiding Thread 111
 Apperception and the Categories of Modality 123
. Introduction 123
. The Categories of Modality 124
. The ‘I think’-Proposition: The Analyticity of Apperception 128
.. The Austere Reading of Apperception 136
.. A Formal Analysis 141
.. Rigorous Coextensivity 150
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:13 PM
X Contents
. Deriving the Categories of Modality 154
 Apperception and the Categories of Relation 168
. Introduction 168
. ‘Substance’ 168
.. Substance and the ‘I Think’ in the First Paralogism 172
.. Substance in the Transcendental Deduction 178
. ‘Causality’ 180
.. Spontaneity as Action of the Understanding or ‘Self-
Activity’ 182
. Combination, Synthetic Unity, and ‘Community’ 186
. Deriving the Categories of Relation: Summary 194
 Apperception and the Categories of Quality 195
. Introduction 195
. Sensation and the Categories of Quality 196
. Sensation, Consciousness, and Apperception 202
.. First-Order Consciousness and Apperception 210
.. Consciousness, Unconsciousness, and Obscurity 214
. Transcendental (Self‐)Consciousness, ‘Negation’, and
‘Limitation’ 216
. Deriving the Categories of Quality: Summary 223
 Apperception and the Categories of Quantity 225
. Introduction 225
. ‘All My Representations’ and ‘Each Representation’: About Two
Types of ‘Accompanying’ in §16 228
. The Analytic Principle of Apperception and Sense Datum
Experience 235
. Hossenfelder on the ‘I Think’ and Analytic Unity 241
. Numerical Identity: ‘Totality is the Unity of Plurality’ 247
. Deriving the Categories of Quantity: Summary 253
. The Conclusion of the D-Argument 254
 From Apperception to Objectivity 258
. Reciprocity Again: The Argument of §17 258
. From Objective Unity to Judgement: the Argument of §19 265
. Kant’s ‘Master Argument’: How the P*- and R-Arguments
Interlock 280
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/20/19 5:13 PM