Manifest Reality - Kant''s Idealism and His Realism

Lucy Allais presents a new account of Kant's transcendental idealism. She argues that Kant is committed to a genuine idealism about things as they appear to us, but that this is not a phenomenalist idealism. Instead, Kant's idealism depends instead on his notion of intuition and its role in cognition.

List of contents

• Part One: Textual Evidence and an Interpretative Pendulum


• 1: Navigating towards a Moderate Metaphysical Interpretation of Transcendental Idealism


• 2: Why Kant is Not a Phenomenalist


• 3: Things in Themselves Without Noumena


• 4: Against Deflationary Interpretations


• Part Two: Manifest Reality


• 5: Essentially Manifest Qualities


• 6: The Secondary Quality Analogy


• 7: Concepts and Intuitions


• 8: The Argument for Transcendental Idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic


• Part Three: Kant's Idealism and his Realism


• 9: Relational Appearances


• 10: Intrinsic Natures


• 11: The Transcendental Deduction: Relation to an Object


• 12: The Possibility of Metaphysics


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Lucy Allais completed her BA degree at , Johannesburg, before going to Oxford to study a BPhil and DPhil. She worked for a number of years at Sussex University, and is currently jointly appointed as a Professor in Philosophy at the University of Witwatersrand and as Henry Allison Chair of the History of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

Summary

Lucy Allais presents a new account of Kant's transcendental idealism. She argues that Kant is committed to a genuine idealism about things as they appear to us, but that this is not a phenomenalist idealism. Instead, Kant's idealism depends instead on his notion of intuition and its role in cognition.

Additional text

This impressive book commands us to rethink entrenched orthodoxies in the interpretation of Kant. It ought to shape the discussion for years to come.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Allais, Lucy (University of the Witwatersrand Allais, Allais Lucy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780198801337
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880133-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge