Kant on Representation and Objectivity
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1st Edition, 11/6/2003
EAN 9780521831215, ISBN10: 0521831210
Hardcover, 228 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
This book is a study of the second-edition version of the 'Transcendental Deduction' (the so-called 'B-Deduction'), which is one of the most important and obscure sections of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. By way of a close analysis of the B-Deduction, Adam Dickerson makes the distinctive claim that the Deduction is crucially concerned with the problem of making intelligible the unity possessed by complex representations - a problem that is the representationalist parallel of the semantic problem of the unity of the proposition. Along the way he discusses most of the key themes in Kant's theory of knowledge, including the nature of thought and representation, the notion of objectivity, and the way in which the mind structures our experience of the world.
Acknowledgements
Note on the text
Introduction
1. Representation
2. Spontaneity and objectivity
3. The unity of consciousness
4. Judgement and the categories
Bibliography
Index.