Kant on what corresponds to sensation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Through a detailed account of Kant's category of Reality and its historical roots, I show how Kant argues that concepts of moving forces must be the fundamental representations of empirical content, and are the only way we have to articulate a rudimentary, and important, notion of objectivity. The category of Reality expresses the notion of an independent "matter" of sensation that is "informed" by spatio-temporal properties. I claim that in order to make clear what he means by this notion, Kant describes the procedure that brings the form of sensation to bear on its matter, thereby developing a new, tractable conception of intensional magnitudes. Kant's concepts of causation and force then emerge as steps in this procedure of quantifying qualities. My account begins with 17th century debates that culminate in the vis viva controversy, tying together several themes from Leibniz -- including substantial forms, the law of continuity, and the genus-species relation -- that form the background for Kant's category of Reality. I then proceed to reconstruct a line of argument running through Kant's essay on Negative Magnitudes, the Critique of Pure Reason, and the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, tracing the route from the abstract concept of Reality to the concrete concept of a moving force. Finally, I explain how Kant was able to construe Newton's derivation of gravity in the Principia in terms of genus-species relations holding among empirical contents or "realities.".
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Glezer, Tal |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy. |
| Primary advisor | Friedman, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Friedman, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Anderson, R. Lanier |
| Thesis advisor | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Warren, Daniel |
| Thesis advisor | Wood, Allen W |
| Advisor | Anderson, R. Lanier |
| Advisor | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Advisor | Warren, Daniel |
| Advisor | Wood, Allen W |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Tal Glezer. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Tal Glezer
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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