Subjectivity in Descartes and Kant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4351902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hubert Schwyzer (University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 188 |
| Pages | 342-357 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9213.00063 |
| OpenAlex | W1972566485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 3 |
Kant’s response to Cartesian scepticism is often characterized in the following way. Whereas Descartes drives a wedge between subjective experience and objective reality, Kant argues that there could be no such thing as experience at all if reality were not itself structured in just the way our thought about it is structured. This picture of Kant’s response to Descartes portrays him as succeeding, where Descartes fails, in arguing directly from the nature of experience to the nature of reality; as subscribing, therefore, to Descartes’ view that one is immediately aware only of one’s own mental states, but as seeing a way out of the subjective predicament. I maintain that this picture is deeply flawed. Kant’s transcendental argument is in fact a thoroughgoing critique of Descartes’ subjectivism, and destroys the Cartesian barrier to recognizing that our awareness of reality is unmediated and direct
Argument (complex analysis · Cartesianism · Epistemology · Skepticism · Subjectivism · Subjectivity · Transcendental number · Transcendental philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy
Truth and Human Nature
Mathematics for Humans
Where There's a Will There's a Way
Direct Perceptual Realism II
Manifest Realism II
Direct Perceptual Realism I
Manifest Realism I
How Do We Know Necessary Truths?
Using Narratives in Creativity Research
The Cartesian Split
Kant's Subjective Deduction
Kant, Science, and Human Nature
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2020 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |