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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783110703321

Autore

Dickerson A. B.

Titolo

Kant on representation and objectivity / / A.B. Dickerson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-13901-5

0-521-03719-0

1-280-42175-4

0-511-18012-8

0-511-14895-X

0-511-30703-9

0-511-48716-9

0-511-07145-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

121/.092

Soggetti

Representation (Philosophy)

Objectivity

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Representation -- 2. Spontaneity and objectivity -- 3. The unity of consciousness -- 4. Judgment and the categories.

Sommario/riassunto

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.