Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
Rae Langton
Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defense of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Langton argues that his claim that we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility: we have no knowledge of the intrinsic properties of substances. This interpretation vindicates Kant's scientific realism, and shows his primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior even to modern-day competitors. And it answers the famous charge that Kant's tale of things in themselves is one that makes itself untellable.
Kateqoriyalar:
İl:
1998
Nəşr:
1
Nəşriyyat:
Oxford University Press, USA
Dil:
english
Səhifələr:
247
ISBN 10:
0198236530
ISBN 13:
9780198236535
Fayl:
PDF, 20.59 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1998