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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782943303321

Autore

Grier Michelle <1960->

Titolo

Kant's doctrine of transcendental illusion / / Michelle Grier [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11881-6

1-280-42107-X

0-511-17441-1

0-511-01808-8

0-511-15435-6

0-511-30228-2

0-511-49814-4

0-511-04918-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Modern European philosophy

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Illusion (Philosophy) - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; pt. 1. Kant's Discovery of Metaphysical Illusion. ; 1. Metaphysical Error in the Precritical Works. ; 2. The Inaugural Dissertation -- ; pt. 2. Fallacies and Illusions in the Critique of Pure Reason. ; 3. The Transcendental Employment of the Understanding and the Conflation of Appearances and Things in Themselves. ; 4. Transcendental Illusion -- ; pt. 3. The Dialectical Inferences of Pure Reason. ; 5. Rational Psychology and the Pseudorational Idea of the Soul. ; 6. Rational Cosmology and the Pseudoempirical Idea of the World. ; 7. Rational Theology and the Pseudorational Idea of God -- ; pt. 4. Illusion and Systematicity. ; 8. The Regulative Employment of Reason.

Sommario/riassunto

This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author shows that a theory of 'illusion' plays a central role in Kant's arguments about metaphysical speculation and scientific theory. Indeed, she argues that we cannot understand Kant unless we take seriously his claim that the mind inevitably acts in



accordance with ideas and principles that are 'illusory'. Taking this claim seriously, we can make much better sense of Kant's arguments and reach a deeper understanding of the role he allots human reason in science.