Where Have all the Categories Gone? Reflections on Longuenesse?s Reading of Kant?s Transcendental Deduction

Bibliographic Data

ID8070103
AuthorsHenry E Allison (corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume43
Issue1
Pages67-80
Publication date2000-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-174X • E-ISSN: 1502-3923
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/002017400321370
OpenAlexW2005949710
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This paper contains a critical analysis of the interpretation of Kant?s second edition version of the Transcendental Deduction offered by Be ́atrice Longuenesse in her recent book: Kant and the Capacity to Judge. Though agreeing with much of Longuenesse?s analysis of the logical function of judgment, I question the way in which she tends to assign them the objectifying role traditionally given to the categories. More particularly, by way of defending my own interpretation of the Deduction against some of her criticisms, I argue that Longuenesse fails to show how either part of the two-part proof may be plausibly thought to have established the necessity of the categories (as opposed to the logical functions). Finally, I question certain aspects of her ?radical? interpretation of the famous footnote at B160-1, where Kant distinguishes between ?form of intuition? and ?formal intuition

Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Intuition · Linguistics · Logical analysis · Transcendental number · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy

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