Kant's Theory of Musical Sound
An Early Exercise in Cognitive Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert E Butts (Western University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-24 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300014955 |
| OpenAlex | W2152531939 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Kant is well known as the philosopher who spent his life hunting for a prioris , philosophically identifiable characteristics of the make-up of human beings. These characteristics are species-universal, and are necessary presuppositions of the possibility of the success of various kinds of cognitive and cultural strategies. Kant bagged some big game. Space, time and the categories are a priori conditions of the possibility of human cognition. God, freedom and immortality are a priori conditions of the possibility of morality. The sensus communis is the a priori condition of the possibility of the universalization of judgments of taste. The hard-won trophies are presuppositions of possibilities. Once they were thought to be properties of a universe well ordered by a substantive god. No longer. Now we must look upon them as entrenched contributions of what it is to be human, as preconditions of human potentialities
A priori and a posteriori · Aesthetics · Cognition · Epistemology · Morality · Presupposition · Taste · Universalization · Bach Studies and Logistics Development · Cognitive Science and Education Research · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |