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

Langton, Rae

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• 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
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