A system of rational faculties

Additive or transformative

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8096942
AutoresKevin Schäfer (0000-0002-6491-2207, Department of Philosophy University of California Irvine Irvine California USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume29
Fascículo4
Páginas918-936
Data de publicação2020-11-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0966-8373 • E-ISSN: 1468-0378
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ejop.12612
OpenAlexW3106112535
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas34

In this essay, I focus on two questions. First, what is Kant's understanding of the sense in which our faculties form a unified system? And, second, what are the implications of this for the metaphysical relationships between the faculties within this system? To consider these questions, I begin with a brief discussion of Longuenesse's groundbreaking work on the teleological unity of the understanding as the faculty for judgment. In doing so, I argue for a generalization of Longuenesse's account along two dimensions. The result is a picture of our faculties as forming a teleological system—unified under the overarching aims of reason as the highest rational faculty. Then I discuss the recent debate between “additive” and “transformative” interpretations of the relationship betweeen sensibility and the understanding, before proposing that we should interpret Kant as endorsing a moderate form of the “transformative” reading, which captures important elements of both the “additive” and the “transformative” account

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