Space, Time, and the Origins of Transcendental Idealism: Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy from 1747 to 1770 3030607410, 9783030607418
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations of Kant’s Works
Chapter 1: Introduction: An Overview of the Metaphysics of the Pre-Critical and Critical Kant
References
Chapter 2: Space, Force, and Matter in the Early Natural Science Writings
The Alternative to a Relationist Reading of Kant’s Early View of Space
Space and Nature in Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces
Space and Matter in Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Substances, Space, and Causality in the Early Metaphysical Writings
Interpreting the New Elucidation and the Physical Monadology
The Metaphysics of the Causal Nexus in the New Elucidation
The Principle of Succession: Physical Influence or Pre-established Harmony?
The Principle of Co-existence: God’s Presence to Substances
Space and Bodies in the Physical Monadology
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: The Development of Kant’s Pre-Critical Metaphysics from 1758 to 1766
The Steady Separation of Sense and Reason
Philosophical Method and the Relation of Mathematics to Metaphysics
Interpretations of Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
Analysis of the First Chapter of Dreams of a Spirit-Seer: Clarifying Spiritualism
Analysis of the Remainder of Dreams: Reforming Metaphysics
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: The Asymmetry of Space: Kant’s Theory of Absolute Space in 1768
Space as Dynamic and Asymmetrical
Basic Concepts: Position (Lage) and Direction (Gegend)
Kant’s Argument for Absolute Space Based on Incongruent Counterparts
Kant’s Solution and the Fall of Parity
Resolution of Some Interpretative Difficulties
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: The Moment of Transformation: Time and the Critical Turn in the Inaugural Dissertation
The Collapse of the Pre-Critical Metaphysics
The Subreptic Axioms and the Role of Time in Kant’s Turn
The Dependency of Time on the Subject
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Kant’s Theory of Space in the Inaugural Dissertation and the Birth of Transcendental Idealism
Comparing Space and Time
The Perceptual Account of Kant’s Theory of Space
The Deflationary Account of Kant’s Theory of Space
The Constructivist Account of Kant’s Theory of Space
The Dependency of Space on the Subject
Conclusion
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations of Kant’s Works
Chapter 1: Introduction: An Overview of the Metaphysics of the Pre-Critical and Critical Kant
References
Chapter 2: Space, Force, and Matter in the Early Natural Science Writings
The Alternative to a Relationist Reading of Kant’s Early View of Space
Space and Nature in Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces
Space and Matter in Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Substances, Space, and Causality in the Early Metaphysical Writings
Interpreting the New Elucidation and the Physical Monadology
The Metaphysics of the Causal Nexus in the New Elucidation
The Principle of Succession: Physical Influence or Pre-established Harmony?
The Principle of Co-existence: God’s Presence to Substances
Space and Bodies in the Physical Monadology
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: The Development of Kant’s Pre-Critical Metaphysics from 1758 to 1766
The Steady Separation of Sense and Reason
Philosophical Method and the Relation of Mathematics to Metaphysics
Interpretations of Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
Analysis of the First Chapter of Dreams of a Spirit-Seer: Clarifying Spiritualism
Analysis of the Remainder of Dreams: Reforming Metaphysics
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: The Asymmetry of Space: Kant’s Theory of Absolute Space in 1768
Space as Dynamic and Asymmetrical
Basic Concepts: Position (Lage) and Direction (Gegend)
Kant’s Argument for Absolute Space Based on Incongruent Counterparts
Kant’s Solution and the Fall of Parity
Resolution of Some Interpretative Difficulties
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: The Moment of Transformation: Time and the Critical Turn in the Inaugural Dissertation
The Collapse of the Pre-Critical Metaphysics
The Subreptic Axioms and the Role of Time in Kant’s Turn
The Dependency of Time on the Subject
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Kant’s Theory of Space in the Inaugural Dissertation and the Birth of Transcendental Idealism
Comparing Space and Time
The Perceptual Account of Kant’s Theory of Space
The Deflationary Account of Kant’s Theory of Space
The Constructivist Account of Kant’s Theory of Space
The Dependency of Space on the Subject
Conclusion
References
Index
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