The Fiery Test of Critique
A Reading of Kant's Dialectic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4351891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron Wells (0000-0003-0132-8238, Paderborn University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 791-793 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqab044 |
| OpenAlex | W3181735145 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
One response to long-standing worries about the justification of metaphysical assertions is to finesse just what kind of assertion they are. Perhaps the claims of metaphysics, useful or even indispensable as they may be, are not factual, or fail to track what's fundamental. The most familiar versions of these moves may be relatively recent. But there is now widespread recognition that Kant was up to something similar. His system retains weaker versions of many metaphysical claims, rather than simply demolishing them. Ian Proops makes an original and intelligent case that Kant's Transcendental Dialectic displays an overlooked sympathy to arguments that, while partly empirical, originate from traditional speculative metaphysics. On this reading, Kant endorses analogical and broadly teleological arguments for an afterlife and for a designer of nature. But there is a crucial proviso: these two arguments yield only doctrinal theoretical belief, not knowledge (4). A conventional interpretation would deny that
Assertion · Dialectic · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Metaphysics · Reading (process · Teleology · Transcendental number · Computer Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |