Michael Pendlebury
Biographic Data
| ID | 461313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Pendlebury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Pendlebury |
| SIGNATURE | PENDLEBURY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4260-2340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Imaginative Synthesis and the Basic Function of the Second Part of Kant's Transcendental Deduction in B
Most recent commentators on Kant's Transcendental Deduction assume that the main purpose of the second part of the B‐Deduction (“BD2”) is to show that human intuitions must fall under categories for reasons connected with their spatio‐temporal form. But there are good reasons to hold that the Deduction as a whole is concerned with pure categories, whose application to spatio‐temporal objects is undetermined. If so, BD2 cannot establish a connecti…
"Making Sense of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason
Tackling Kant’s seminal enlightenment text, Critique of Pure Reason, remains key for every student of modern philosophy. Michael Pendlebury distils his breadth of experience teaching Kant’s first Critique to provide a short, accessible introduction that reveals its enduring inspirations, challenges and ideas to thinkers grappling with contemporary philosophical issues. Clarifying and making sense of Kant’s account of perception, cognition, space,…
How to be a Normative Expressivist
Individual Autonomy and Global Democracy
In this schematic article I adumbrate an approach to normative political theory that is based on the idea that individual autonomy is a fundamental political value (Section I) and draw out some important consequences of the approach for the global political order (Section II)
Thought and language
This article defends the view that nonlinguistic animals could be capable of thought (in the sense in which the mere possession of beliefs and desires is sufficient for thought). It is easy to identify flaws in Davidson’s arguments for the thesis that thought depends upon language if one is open to the idea that some nonlinguistic animals have beliefs. It is, however, necessary to do more than this if one wishes to engage with the deeper challeng…
Sensibility and understanding in perceptual judgments
The main aim of this paper is to work towards an account of how sensibility and understanding combine in perceptual judgments, with the emphasis on the role of sensibility in both the justification of such judgments and the explanation of how it is possible for them to apply to an objective world. I argue that in the normal course of events sensory intuitions function as (animal-level) beliefs about the objective world; and that these in turn acq…
Cases and Comments
Making Sense of Kant's Schematism
The opaqueness and obscurity of Schematism chapterthe chapter Kant himself thought to be one of most important pieces of Critique, and to Hegel paid tribute as being among finest pages of entire Kantian oeuvre-has often been stressed, with undertones ranging from wonder to irritation. From among earliest statements we recall F. H. Jacobi's assessment of schematism as the most wonderful and most mysterious of all unfathomable mysteries and wonders…
Content and Causation in Perception
In order to feel' that there is an abrasive surface beneath your hand, you must have a haptic experience which is caused by an abrasive surface beneath your hand. In order to hear your car's engine starting, you must have an aural experience which is caused by your car's engine starting. In order to see the tallest man in the world, you must have a visual experience which is caused by the tallest man in the world. And so on. But even if you have …
Why Proper Names are Rigid Designators
In this paper I argue that the rigidity of proper names can be explained by appealing to a more fundamental semantic feature which I refer to as their arbitrariness. I assume and do not try to show that proper names are rigid designators. My purpose, rather, is to establish a connection between their arbitrariness and rigidity which, even though contingent, shows that rigidity is a far less accidental feature of names than it might otherwise appe…
Russellian Thoughts
Heidelberger on the First and Second Person
(I) A person (a) who understands a simple sentence in the first person (one that contains no other indexical expressions) and (b) who is aware that he has authored a serious occurrence of such a sentence is a person (c) who (provided he accepts the simple consequences of his beliefs) believes that that occurrence expresses a truth if, and only if, (d) he believes the proposition expressed by it. (p. 32)
Making Sense of Kant's Schematism
The opaqueness and obscurity of Schematism chapterthe chapter Kant himself thought to be one of most important pieces of Critique, and to Hegel paid tribute as being among finest pages of entire Kantian oeuvre-has often been stressed, with undertones ranging from wonder to irritation. From among earliest statements we recall F. H. Jacobi's assessment of schematism as the most wonderful and most mysterious of all unfathomable mysteries and wonders…
How to be a Normative Expressivist
Cases and Comments
Why Proper Names are Rigid Designators
In this paper I argue that the rigidity of proper names can be explained by appealing to a more fundamental semantic feature which I refer to as their arbitrariness. I assume and do not try to show that proper names are rigid designators. My purpose, rather, is to establish a connection between their arbitrariness and rigidity which, even though contingent, shows that rigidity is a far less accidental feature of names than it might otherwise appe…
Heidelberger on the First and Second Person
(I) A person (a) who understands a simple sentence in the first person (one that contains no other indexical expressions) and (b) who is aware that he has authored a serious occurrence of such a sentence is a person (c) who (provided he accepts the simple consequences of his beliefs) believes that that occurrence expresses a truth if, and only if, (d) he believes the proposition expressed by it. (p. 32)
Russellian Thoughts
Why Proper Names are Rigid Designators
In this paper I argue that the rigidity of proper names can be explained by appealing to a more fundamental semantic feature which I refer to as their arbitrariness. I assume and do not try to show that proper names are rigid designators. My purpose, rather, is to establish a connection between their arbitrariness and rigidity which, even though contingent, shows that rigidity is a far less accidental feature of names than it might otherwise appe…
Content and Causation in Perception
In order to feel' that there is an abrasive surface beneath your hand, you must have a haptic experience which is caused by an abrasive surface beneath your hand. In order to hear your car's engine starting, you must have an aural experience which is caused by your car's engine starting. In order to see the tallest man in the world, you must have a visual experience which is caused by the tallest man in the world. And so on. But even if you have …
Cases and Comments
Making Sense of Kant's Schematism
The opaqueness and obscurity of Schematism chapterthe chapter Kant himself thought to be one of most important pieces of Critique, and to Hegel paid tribute as being among finest pages of entire Kantian oeuvre-has often been stressed, with undertones ranging from wonder to irritation. From among earliest statements we recall F. H. Jacobi's assessment of schematism as the most wonderful and most mysterious of all unfathomable mysteries and wonders…
Sensibility and understanding in perceptual judgments
The main aim of this paper is to work towards an account of how sensibility and understanding combine in perceptual judgments, with the emphasis on the role of sensibility in both the justification of such judgments and the explanation of how it is possible for them to apply to an objective world. I argue that in the normal course of events sensory intuitions function as (animal-level) beliefs about the objective world; and that these in turn acq…
Thought and language
This article defends the view that nonlinguistic animals could be capable of thought (in the sense in which the mere possession of beliefs and desires is sufficient for thought). It is easy to identify flaws in Davidson’s arguments for the thesis that thought depends upon language if one is open to the idea that some nonlinguistic animals have beliefs. It is, however, necessary to do more than this if one wishes to engage with the deeper challeng…
Individual Autonomy and Global Democracy
In this schematic article I adumbrate an approach to normative political theory that is based on the idea that individual autonomy is a fundamental political value (Section I) and draw out some important consequences of the approach for the global political order (Section II)
How to be a Normative Expressivist
"Making Sense of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason
Tackling Kant’s seminal enlightenment text, Critique of Pure Reason, remains key for every student of modern philosophy. Michael Pendlebury distils his breadth of experience teaching Kant’s first Critique to provide a short, accessible introduction that reveals its enduring inspirations, challenges and ideas to thinkers grappling with contemporary philosophical issues. Clarifying and making sense of Kant’s account of perception, cognition, space,…
Imaginative Synthesis and the Basic Function of the Second Part of Kant's Transcendental Deduction in B
Most recent commentators on Kant's Transcendental Deduction assume that the main purpose of the second part of the B‐Deduction (“BD2”) is to show that human intuitions must fall under categories for reasons connected with their spatio‐temporal form. But there are good reasons to hold that the Deduction as a whole is concerned with pure categories, whose application to spatio‐temporal objects is undetermined. If so, BD2 cannot establish a connecti…
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