Desmond Hogan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3781559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desmond Hogan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desmond |
| FAMILY NAME | Hogan |
| SIGNATURE | HOGAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight. Such expansion could have meaning, he argued, “only for those who reason as if space were absolute ... it would be better to say that space b…
Proops’s ‘Nugget of Gold’ in Kant’s Dialectic
The Fiery Test of Critique describes Kant’s indirect proof of idealism from the Antinomy of Pure Reason as the ‘nugget of gold’ in the Critique of Pure Reason ’s Transcendental Dialectic. Here, I offer critical reflections on Proops’s reading of Kant’s indirect proof
Handedness, Idealism, and Freedom
Incongruent counterparts are pairs of objects which cannot be enclosed in the same spatial limits despite an exact similarity in magnitude, proportion, and relative position of their parts. Kant discerns in such objects, whose most familiar example is left and right hands, a “paradox” demanding “demotion of space and time to mere forms of our sensory intuition.” This paper aims at an adequate understanding of Kant’s enigmatic idealist argument fr…
Metaphysical Motives of Kant’s Analytic–Synthetic Distinction
The paper identifies metaphysical motives underwriting Kant’s analytic-synthetic distinction. Kant denies the reducibility of his synthetic to analytic judgments by conceptual analysis. Leibniz upholds general reducibility, presenting the Principle of Sufficient Reason as its instrument. I argue that Kant’s irreducibility doctrine involves a threefold metaphysical critique of Leibniz’s PSR. First, this principle is described as incompatible with …
Kant’s Copernican Turn and the Rationalist Tradition
The Critique of Pure Reason sets out to establish the sources, extent, and limits of a priori knowledge, with a view to ascertaining the prospects for metaphysics as a scientific enterprise. Kant defines a priori knowledge as knowledge that is "absolutely independent of all experience," and distinguishes it from empirical knowledge, whose sources lie in experience (B 2-3). The Critique's second edition frames its overarching goal as a general sol…
Three Kinds of Rationalism and the Non-Spatiality of Things in Themselves
Three Kinds of Rationalism and the Non-Spatiality of Things in Themselves Desmond Hogan (bio) In the transcendental aesthetic of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant claims that space and time are neither things in themselves nor properties of things in themselves but mere subjective forms of our sensible experience. Call this the Subjectivity Thesis.1 The striking conclusion follows an analysis of the representations of space and time. Kant argues …
How to Know Unknowable Things in Themselves
Noumenal Affection
A central doctrine of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason holds that the content of human experience is rooted in an affection of sensibility by unknowable things in themselves. This famous and puzzling affection doctrine raises two seemingly intractable old problems, which can be termed the Indispensability and the Consistency Problems. By what right does Kant present affection by supersensible entities as an indispensable requirement of experience? …
Kants Begriff transzendentaler und praktischer Freiheit
Kant writes at one point in the Critique of Pure Reason that can be recognized experience, as one of the natural causes (B 831). This claim appears to conflict with a central epistemological theme of his critical philosophy. This work responds by carefully tracing the details of the relationship between transcendental and through all of Kant's writings (published works, lecture notes, etc.). Kant uses the term practical freedom in several quite d…
Dilemmas of Diversification
(1983). Dilemmas of Diversification: problems associated with vocational education in developing countries. Comparative Education: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 89-107
Dilemmas of Diversification
(1983). Dilemmas of Diversification: problems associated with vocational education in developing countries. Comparative Education: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 89-107
Kants Begriff transzendentaler und praktischer Freiheit
Kant writes at one point in the Critique of Pure Reason that can be recognized experience, as one of the natural causes (B 831). This claim appears to conflict with a central epistemological theme of his critical philosophy. This work responds by carefully tracing the details of the relationship between transcendental and through all of Kant's writings (published works, lecture notes, etc.). Kant uses the term practical freedom in several quite d…
Noumenal Affection
A central doctrine of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason holds that the content of human experience is rooted in an affection of sensibility by unknowable things in themselves. This famous and puzzling affection doctrine raises two seemingly intractable old problems, which can be termed the Indispensability and the Consistency Problems. By what right does Kant present affection by supersensible entities as an indispensable requirement of experience? …
Metaphysical Motives of Kant’s Analytic–Synthetic Distinction
The paper identifies metaphysical motives underwriting Kant’s analytic-synthetic distinction. Kant denies the reducibility of his synthetic to analytic judgments by conceptual analysis. Leibniz upholds general reducibility, presenting the Principle of Sufficient Reason as its instrument. I argue that Kant’s irreducibility doctrine involves a threefold metaphysical critique of Leibniz’s PSR. First, this principle is described as incompatible with …
Dilemmas of Diversification
(1983). Dilemmas of Diversification: problems associated with vocational education in developing countries. Comparative Education: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 89-107
Kants Begriff transzendentaler und praktischer Freiheit
Kant writes at one point in the Critique of Pure Reason that can be recognized experience, as one of the natural causes (B 831). This claim appears to conflict with a central epistemological theme of his critical philosophy. This work responds by carefully tracing the details of the relationship between transcendental and through all of Kant's writings (published works, lecture notes, etc.). Kant uses the term practical freedom in several quite d…
Three Kinds of Rationalism and the Non-Spatiality of Things in Themselves
Three Kinds of Rationalism and the Non-Spatiality of Things in Themselves Desmond Hogan (bio) In the transcendental aesthetic of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant claims that space and time are neither things in themselves nor properties of things in themselves but mere subjective forms of our sensible experience. Call this the Subjectivity Thesis.1 The striking conclusion follows an analysis of the representations of space and time. Kant argues …
How to Know Unknowable Things in Themselves
Noumenal Affection
A central doctrine of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason holds that the content of human experience is rooted in an affection of sensibility by unknowable things in themselves. This famous and puzzling affection doctrine raises two seemingly intractable old problems, which can be termed the Indispensability and the Consistency Problems. By what right does Kant present affection by supersensible entities as an indispensable requirement of experience? …
Kant’s Copernican Turn and the Rationalist Tradition
The Critique of Pure Reason sets out to establish the sources, extent, and limits of a priori knowledge, with a view to ascertaining the prospects for metaphysics as a scientific enterprise. Kant defines a priori knowledge as knowledge that is "absolutely independent of all experience," and distinguishes it from empirical knowledge, whose sources lie in experience (B 2-3). The Critique's second edition frames its overarching goal as a general sol…
Metaphysical Motives of Kant’s Analytic–Synthetic Distinction
The paper identifies metaphysical motives underwriting Kant’s analytic-synthetic distinction. Kant denies the reducibility of his synthetic to analytic judgments by conceptual analysis. Leibniz upholds general reducibility, presenting the Principle of Sufficient Reason as its instrument. I argue that Kant’s irreducibility doctrine involves a threefold metaphysical critique of Leibniz’s PSR. First, this principle is described as incompatible with …
Handedness, Idealism, and Freedom
Incongruent counterparts are pairs of objects which cannot be enclosed in the same spatial limits despite an exact similarity in magnitude, proportion, and relative position of their parts. Kant discerns in such objects, whose most familiar example is left and right hands, a “paradox” demanding “demotion of space and time to mere forms of our sensory intuition.” This paper aims at an adequate understanding of Kant’s enigmatic idealist argument fr…
Proops’s ‘Nugget of Gold’ in Kant’s Dialectic
The Fiery Test of Critique describes Kant’s indirect proof of idealism from the Antinomy of Pure Reason as the ‘nugget of gold’ in the Critique of Pure Reason ’s Transcendental Dialectic. Here, I offer critical reflections on Proops’s reading of Kant’s indirect proof
Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight. Such expansion could have meaning, he argued, “only for those who reason as if space were absolute ... it would be better to say that space b…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Transcendental number (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Doctrine (2 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (2 works)