Noumenal Causality Reconsidered
Affection, Agency, and Meaning in Kant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8104048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth R Westphal (0000-0001-6039-760X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-245 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1080/00455091.1997.10717478 |
| OpenAlex | W1503072472 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
The lead question of Kant's first Critique, indeed his whole Critical Philosophy is ‘How is Metaphysics as a Science Possible?’ Neo-Kantian and recent Anglophone interpretations of Kant's epistemology have concentrated on the ‘Transcendental Analytic’ of the first Critique, and have taken Kant's positive and legitimate sense of metaphysics to concern the necessary conditions of our knowledge of mathematics, natural science, and of course, our common sense knowledge of a spatio-temporal world of objects and events. However, in the ‘Canon of Pure Reason’ in the first Critique Kant indicates quite clearly that, although two of the leading sub-questions of metaphysics — ‘What should I so?’ and ‘What may I hope?’ — cannot be answered on theoretical grounds, they may be answered on practical grounds (A804-05=B832-33). Those practical grounds are elaborated and supplemented (mainly) in the latter two Critiques and the Religion. In each case, however, a definite and positive answer to a metaphysical question involves giving ‘objective reality’ to a concept, e.g., the concepts of freedom or immortality. ‘Objective reality’ involves possible reference to an object, where ‘possible reference’ involves more than merely describing a logical possibility
Agency (philosophy · Causality (physics · Common sense · Critical philosophy · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Metaphysics · Object (grammar · Practical reason · Transcendental idealism · Transcendental number · Transcendental philosophy · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy
Kant's transcendental idealism
Kant’s Transcendental Deductions
Kant and the Mind
On the status of ?things in themselves? in Kant
Kant's sensationism
Causality and things in themselves
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason
Affinity, Idealism and Naturalism
Kant’s Transcendental Deduction
Two Perspectives on Kant's Appearances and Things in Themselves
Kant‘s Transcendental Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |