Articles liés à Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves

Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves - Couverture souple

Langton, Rae

 
9780199243174: Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0199243174 ISBN 13 : 9780199243174
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence 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. Kant says that phenomena--things as we know them--consist 'entirely of relations'. 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 humility has its roots in some plausible philosophical beliefs: an empiricist belief in the receptivity of human knowledge and a metaphysical belief in the irreducibility of relational properties. Langton's 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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Rae Langton is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199243174
ISBN 13 
9780199243174
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Ufficio Anagrafiche Messaggerie
ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it

Via Verdi, 8
Assago Milano
20090
Italie