Kant on the spontaneous power of the mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8098295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John J Callanan (0000-0001-9877-3703, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 565-588 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal for the History of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-8788 • E-ISSN: 1469-3526 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09608788.2016.1263183 |
| OpenAlex | W2583229632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 45 |
It is well known that at the heart of Kant’s Critical philosophy is the claim that the mind possesses an essentially spontaneous power or capacity (Vermögen). It is also sometimes maintained that Kant’s appeals to this spontaneous power are intimately tied to his recognition of there being a fundamental and irreducible normative dimension to judgement. However, I attempt to complicate this picture by way of appeal to some less appreciated influences upon the development of Kant’s epistemology. A different conception of the role of spontaneity in judgement has clear precedents, I claim, in the works of Cudworth and Rousseau. There the imagined role for the active power of the mind is not to identify criteria that might serve as norms for epistemically responsible judgement. Rather the spontaneous power of the mind is cited as the source of representational contents that secure the truth conditions of our everyday claims to empirical knowledge
Appeal · Critical philosophy · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Judgement · Normative · Political science · Power (physics · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy, Science, and History · Law · Philosophy
Kant's transcendental idealism
Idealism and Freedom
Critique of Pure Reason
Theoretical Philosophy, 1755–1770
Kant’s Transcendental Idealism
Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality
Gassendi's Ethics
Kant and the Mind
The Sources of Normativity
Idealism as Modernism
This I or He or It (The Thing) which Thinks
Freedom and the End of Reason
Kant's sensationism
Kant's empirical realism and the second analogy of experience
The Bounds of Sense. An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
On Hume on Space
Kant's Model of Causality
The Needs of Understanding
Kant’s Transcendental Deduction as a Regressive Argument
Kant‘s Transcendental Psychology
The Bounds of Sense
Kant’s Thinker
Spontaneity and Receptivity in Kant’s Theory of Knowledge
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Understanding and Sensibility
Idealism and freedom
The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument
Reflection, Enlightenment, and the Significance of Spontaneity in Kant
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |