Karin De Boer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin De Boer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | De Boer |
| SIGNATURE | DE BOER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5165-1063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Philosophy’s Crutches: Kant’s Use of Analogical Reasoning in the Critique of Pure Reason
This article seeks to demonstrate that Kant throughout the Critique of Pure Reason employs a type of analogical reasoning that belongs to the methodical backbone of the work. More specifically, I take him to draw on disciplines such as mathematics, general logic, and empirical psychology to expose the a priori features of human cognition at stake in his analyses. After examining Kant’s own comments on the use of analogies in the Critique of Pure …
Developing cognition from its original seeds: Kant's conception of the synthetic method in the Critique of Pure Reason
In the Prolegomena , Kant contrasts the synthetic procedure employed in the Critique of Pure Reason with the analytic procedure carried out in the Prolegomena itself. Given the tangle of analyses, arguments, and alleged proofs that make up the Critique itself, however, it is hard to relate Kant's remarks on the method to the way he actually proceeds in this work. Unlike Merritt and Gava, among others, I argue that Kant's innovative use of the syn…
A Footnote on Plato? Kant's Comparison of Philosophy and Chemistry in the 1787 Preface of the Critique of Pure Reason
Commentaries on the B‐Preface of the Critique of Pure Reason tend to focus on Kant's so‐called Copernican turn. Much less attention has been paid to the fact that the B‐Preface compares the achievement of the Critique to two different scientific procedures: the act of demonstrating a counter‐intuitive hypothesis and the act of verifying its correctness by means of a cross‐check. Whereas the first procedure seeks to prove that objective cognitions…
Why Did Kant Conceive of the Critique of Pure Reason as a Critique? Comments on Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics
My response to Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (2023) focuses on Kant’s conception of the role of critique in the Critique of Pure Reason. On my account, Gava’s emphasis on the constructive elements of the Critique downplays the critique of former metaphysics elaborated in all three parts of the Transcendental Doctrine of Elements. After some comments on Kant’s conception of the Critique as a doctrine …
Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics: A Response to My Critics
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The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
Kant's reform of metaphysics the Critique of pure reason reconsidered: The Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered
Scholarly debates on the Critique of Pure Reason have largely been shaped by epistemological questions. Challenging this prevailing trend, Kant's Reform of Metaphysics is the first book-length study to interpret Kant's Critique in view of his efforts to turn Christian Wolff's highly influential metaphysics into a science. Karin de Boer situates Kant's pivotal work in the context of eighteenth-century German philosophy, traces the development of K…
A ground completely overgrown: Heidegger, Kant and the problem of metaphysics
While we endorse Heidegger’s effort to reclaim Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as a work concerned with the possibility of metaphysics, we hold, first, that his reading is less original than is often assumed and, second, that it unduly marginalizes the critical impetus of Kant’s philosophy. This article seeks to shed new light on Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics and related texts by relating Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant to, on the one han…
Kant’s Multi-Layered Conception of Things in Themselves, Transcendental Objects, and Monads
While Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason maintains that things in themselves cannot be known, he also seems to assert that they affect our senses and produce representations. Following Jacobi, many commentators have considered these claims to be contradictory. Instead of adding another artificial solution to the existing literature on this subject, I maintain that Kant's use of terms such as thing-in-itself, noumenon, and transcendental object b…
Hegel’s Conception of Immanent Critique: Its Sources, Extent and Limit
Throughout the twentieth century, many philosophers have implicitly or explicitly assumed that it is possible to criticise a particular philosophical, political or cultural paradigm — be it modernity as such — in the name of a criterion that such a paradigm contains within itself. There is no doubt that this method has been extremely productive. I take it, however, that it also contains an illusory element. In order to shed light on the force and…
Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
Transformations of Transcendental Philosophy: Wolff, Kant, and Hegel
Kant's philosophy is generally known as transcendental philosophy or transcendental idealism, terms often thought to describe the inquiry into the subjective conditions of empirical knowledge carried out in the Critique of Pure Reason . On this conception of transcendental philosophy Kant is seen to pursue a project very different from both Wolffian metaphysics and Hegelian speculative science. This view is confirmed by scholars who compare Kant'…
On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative
Focusing on the Science of Logic , this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer
Hegel and History
The Common Root of Commitment, Resistance and Power
This essay responds to some of the questions raised by Infinitely Demanding from the perspective of tragic conflicts. On this view, the struggle for power cannot be disentangled from the freedom at stake in liberalism and capitalism, nor from the efforts of individuals and groups to resist the powers that be. I suggest, moreover, that this entanglement threatens to divide from within not just the ethical subject, but groups and institutions as we…
Enter the Ghost/Exit the Ghost/Re-Enter the Ghost: Derrida's Reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx
(2002). Enter the Ghost/Exit the Ghost/Re-Enter the Ghost: Derrida's Reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 33, Consciousness, Existence and Aesthetics, pp. 22-38
The Infinite Movement of Self-Conception and Its Inconceivable Finitude: Hegel on Logos and Language
Bien que Hegel soit parfaitement conscient du fait que l'activité de penser nepuisse devenir ce qu'elle est que dans etpar le langage, on peut dire qu'ila préservé une distinction hiérarchisée entre la pensée et le langage dans lequel elle s'exprime. Dans le but de clarifier ce qu'il veut dire exactement lorsqu'il distingue entre, d'un côté, la totalité des concepts purs et, de l'autre, le langage, la première partie du présent article—qui en est…
Transformations of Transcendental Philosophy: Wolff, Kant, and Hegel
Kant's philosophy is generally known as transcendental philosophy or transcendental idealism, terms often thought to describe the inquiry into the subjective conditions of empirical knowledge carried out in the Critique of Pure Reason . On this conception of transcendental philosophy Kant is seen to pursue a project very different from both Wolffian metaphysics and Hegelian speculative science. This view is confirmed by scholars who compare Kant'…
On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative
Focusing on the Science of Logic , this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer
A ground completely overgrown: Heidegger, Kant and the problem of metaphysics
While we endorse Heidegger’s effort to reclaim Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as a work concerned with the possibility of metaphysics, we hold, first, that his reading is less original than is often assumed and, second, that it unduly marginalizes the critical impetus of Kant’s philosophy. This article seeks to shed new light on Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics and related texts by relating Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant to, on the one han…
Kant’s Multi-Layered Conception of Things in Themselves, Transcendental Objects, and Monads
While Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason maintains that things in themselves cannot be known, he also seems to assert that they affect our senses and produce representations. Following Jacobi, many commentators have considered these claims to be contradictory. Instead of adding another artificial solution to the existing literature on this subject, I maintain that Kant's use of terms such as thing-in-itself, noumenon, and transcendental object b…
The Infinite Movement of Self-Conception and Its Inconceivable Finitude: Hegel on Logos and Language
Bien que Hegel soit parfaitement conscient du fait que l'activité de penser nepuisse devenir ce qu'elle est que dans etpar le langage, on peut dire qu'ila préservé une distinction hiérarchisée entre la pensée et le langage dans lequel elle s'exprime. Dans le but de clarifier ce qu'il veut dire exactement lorsqu'il distingue entre, d'un côté, la totalité des concepts purs et, de l'autre, le langage, la première partie du présent article—qui en est…
Enter the Ghost/Exit the Ghost/Re-Enter the Ghost: Derrida's Reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx
(2002). Enter the Ghost/Exit the Ghost/Re-Enter the Ghost: Derrida's Reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 33, Consciousness, Existence and Aesthetics, pp. 22-38
Hegel and History
The Common Root of Commitment, Resistance and Power
This essay responds to some of the questions raised by Infinitely Demanding from the perspective of tragic conflicts. On this view, the struggle for power cannot be disentangled from the freedom at stake in liberalism and capitalism, nor from the efforts of individuals and groups to resist the powers that be. I suggest, moreover, that this entanglement threatens to divide from within not just the ethical subject, but groups and institutions as we…
On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative
Focusing on the Science of Logic , this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer
Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
Transformations of Transcendental Philosophy: Wolff, Kant, and Hegel
Kant's philosophy is generally known as transcendental philosophy or transcendental idealism, terms often thought to describe the inquiry into the subjective conditions of empirical knowledge carried out in the Critique of Pure Reason . On this conception of transcendental philosophy Kant is seen to pursue a project very different from both Wolffian metaphysics and Hegelian speculative science. This view is confirmed by scholars who compare Kant'…
Hegel’s Conception of Immanent Critique: Its Sources, Extent and Limit
Throughout the twentieth century, many philosophers have implicitly or explicitly assumed that it is possible to criticise a particular philosophical, political or cultural paradigm — be it modernity as such — in the name of a criterion that such a paradigm contains within itself. There is no doubt that this method has been extremely productive. I take it, however, that it also contains an illusory element. In order to shed light on the force and…
Kant’s Multi-Layered Conception of Things in Themselves, Transcendental Objects, and Monads
While Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason maintains that things in themselves cannot be known, he also seems to assert that they affect our senses and produce representations. Following Jacobi, many commentators have considered these claims to be contradictory. Instead of adding another artificial solution to the existing literature on this subject, I maintain that Kant's use of terms such as thing-in-itself, noumenon, and transcendental object b…
A ground completely overgrown: Heidegger, Kant and the problem of metaphysics
While we endorse Heidegger’s effort to reclaim Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as a work concerned with the possibility of metaphysics, we hold, first, that his reading is less original than is often assumed and, second, that it unduly marginalizes the critical impetus of Kant’s philosophy. This article seeks to shed new light on Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics and related texts by relating Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant to, on the one han…
Kant's reform of metaphysics the Critique of pure reason reconsidered: The Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered
Scholarly debates on the Critique of Pure Reason have largely been shaped by epistemological questions. Challenging this prevailing trend, Kant's Reform of Metaphysics is the first book-length study to interpret Kant's Critique in view of his efforts to turn Christian Wolff's highly influential metaphysics into a science. Karin de Boer situates Kant's pivotal work in the context of eighteenth-century German philosophy, traces the development of K…
The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics: A Response to My Critics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Why Did Kant Conceive of the Critique of Pure Reason as a Critique? Comments on Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics
My response to Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (2023) focuses on Kant’s conception of the role of critique in the Critique of Pure Reason. On my account, Gava’s emphasis on the constructive elements of the Critique downplays the critique of former metaphysics elaborated in all three parts of the Transcendental Doctrine of Elements. After some comments on Kant’s conception of the Critique as a doctrine …
Developing cognition from its original seeds: Kant's conception of the synthetic method in the Critique of Pure Reason
In the Prolegomena , Kant contrasts the synthetic procedure employed in the Critique of Pure Reason with the analytic procedure carried out in the Prolegomena itself. Given the tangle of analyses, arguments, and alleged proofs that make up the Critique itself, however, it is hard to relate Kant's remarks on the method to the way he actually proceeds in this work. Unlike Merritt and Gava, among others, I argue that Kant's innovative use of the syn…
A Footnote on Plato? Kant's Comparison of Philosophy and Chemistry in the 1787 Preface of the Critique of Pure Reason
Commentaries on the B‐Preface of the Critique of Pure Reason tend to focus on Kant's so‐called Copernican turn. Much less attention has been paid to the fact that the B‐Preface compares the achievement of the Critique to two different scientific procedures: the act of demonstrating a counter‐intuitive hypothesis and the act of verifying its correctness by means of a cross‐check. Whereas the first procedure seeks to prove that objective cognitions…
Philosophy’s Crutches: Kant’s Use of Analogical Reasoning in the Critique of Pure Reason
This article seeks to demonstrate that Kant throughout the Critique of Pure Reason employs a type of analogical reasoning that belongs to the methodical backbone of the work. More specifically, I take him to draw on disciplines such as mathematics, general logic, and empirical psychology to expose the a priori features of human cognition at stake in his analyses. After examining Kant’s own comments on the use of analogies in the Critique of Pure …
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