Intuition in Kant

The Boundlessness of Sense

Daniel Smyth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-33031-2 (ISBN)

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This is the first monograph on Kant's theory of intuition to appear in several decades. It will appeal to scholars of Kant, Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism and Romanticism, as well as those with a general interest in the theory of knowledge.

In this book Daniel Smyth offers a comprehensive overview of Immanuel Kant's conception of intuition in all its species – divine, receptive, sensible, and human. Kant considers sense perception a paradigm of intuition, yet claims that we can represent infinities in intuition, despite the finitude of sense perception. Smyth examines this heterodox combination of commitments and argues that the various features Kant ascribes to intuition are meant to remedy specific cognitive shortcomings that arise from the discursivity of our intellect Intuition acting as the intellect's cognitive partner to make knowledge possible. He reconstructs Kant's conception of intuition and its role in his philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of mathematics, and shows that Kant's conception of sensibility is as innovative and revolutionary as his much-debated theory of the understanding.

Daniel Smyth is Assistant Professor of Letters, Philosophy, and German Studies at Wesleyan University. He publishes on Kant, philosophy of mathematics, and aesthetic theory and has translated numerous books and articles from German.

Introduction: from infinity to givenness: Kant's apperceptive faculty psychology and his Top-Down approach to intuition; 1. Reason's self-knowledge and Kant's critical methodology; 2. Synthetic judgment and intuition: the sensibility/understanding distinction in the 'Introduction'; 3. An apperceptive approach to the transcendental aesthetic; 4. Exposition, conceptual analysis, and apperception; 5. Infinity, discursivity, givenness: the intuitive roots of spatial representation; 6. Prolegomena to a Stufenleiter of Kantian intuition; 7. A Stufenleiter of Kantian intuition; Part I. Intuition Überhaupt and Spontaneous Intuition: 8. A Stufenleiter of Kantian intuition; Part II. Receptivity and Sensibility; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	1-009-33031-4 / 1009330314
ISBN-13	978-1-009-33031-2 / 9781009330312
Zustand	Neuware