Alternative to Ontology or Alternative Ontology? Allison on the ‘Proud Name’ of Ontology (A247/B303)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20510477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Murray Miles (0000-0002-8473-6191, Brock University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 573-588 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Kantian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-4154 • E-ISSN: 2044-2394 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1369415425101131 |
| OpenAlex | W7117318996 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper argues that, far from supporting, an oft-cited passage of the Phenomena and Noumena chapter (A247/B303) instead belies, Allison’s influential thesis that Kant’s transcendental idealism is not an ‘alternative ontology’ but a methodological or meta-epistemological ‘alternative to ontology’ that is devoid of specific metaphysical content. Following a programmatic sketch of Kant’s system of principles as a regional ontology of nature, it is argued that the precise wording and original punctuation of that passage suggest that the transcendentally realist ontologies of the past are to ‘give way’ to just such an immanent ontology of the world of outer experience
Idealism · Metaphysics · Ontology · Ontology components · Process ontology · Sketch · Transcendental number · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
Ideas
Kant and the Claims of Knowledge
Kant's Critique of Berkeley
Kant's Construction of Nature
Ontologie oder Metaphysik?
Much Ado about ‘Something ( Etwas )’
Problems from Kant
Kant's Radicalization of Cartesian Foundationalism
Kant's Transcendental Deduction
Two Perspectives on Kant's Appearances and Things in Themselves
Kant’s Modal Metaphysics
Kant and Rational Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |