Definitions of Kant’s categories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23197948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tyke Nunez (0000-0002-2693-4886, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 631-657 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-5091 • E-ISSN: 1911-0820 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00455091.2014.974469 |
| OpenAlex | W2216173397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 10 |
The consensus view in the literature is that, according to Kant, definitions in philosophy are impossible. While this is true prior to the advent of transcendental philosophy, I argue that with Kant’s Copernican Turn definitions of some philosophical concepts, the categories become possible. Along the way I discuss issues like why Kant introduces the ‘Analytic of Concepts’ as an analysis of the understanding, how this faculty, as the faculty for judging, provides the principle for the complete exhibition of the categories, how the pure categories relate to the schematized categories, and how the latter can be used on empirical objects.
Analytic philosophy · Art history · Contemporary philosophy · Copernican principle · Epistemology · Exhibition · General interest · Transcendental number · Transcendental philosophy · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |