Kantian conceptual geography / Nathaniel Jason Goldberg.
2015
193 K16g 2015
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Title
Kantian conceptual geography / Nathaniel Jason Goldberg.
Author
ISBN
9780190215385 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0190215380 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0190215380 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Language
English
Description
xiii, 271 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
193 K16g 2015
System Control No.
(OCoLC)884817946
(OCoLC)884817946
(OCoLC)884817946
Summary
This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography. It explores issues in analytic epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics in particular by appealing to theses drawn from Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Those issues include the nature of the subjective, objective, and empirical; potential scopes of the subjectie; what can (and cannot) be said about a subject-independent reality; analyticity, syntheticity, apriority, and aposteriority; constitutive principles, acquisitive principles, and empirical claims, meaning, indeterminacy, and incommensurability; logically possible versus subjectively empirical worlds; and the nature of empirical truth. Part One introduces two theses drawn from the Critique. The first, Empirical Dualism, concerns the subjective, objective, and empirical. The second, Subjective Principlism, concerns principles that might bear on the empirical. Part Two examines work of influential analytic philosophers to reveal how conceptually expansive the territory formed by Empirical Dualism and Subjective Principlism. Part Three defends that territory by defending Empirical Dualism and Subjective Principlism themselves. Part Four discloses two new lands within the territory that have so far remained uncharted. The first is a Kantian account of meaning, which is shown to be superior to other accounts of meaning in the analytic literature. The second are Kantian thoughts on truth, which illuminate the nature of empirical truth itself. Finally Part Five shows how engaging in Kantian conceptual geography enriches epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics generally. -- from dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) index.
Formatted Contents Note
Part One: Establishing Kantianism's borders
One: Dualism, principlism, Kantianism
Kantianism
Kantianism and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Contrasting views
The plan of this work
Naturalism
Part Two: Exploring Kantian territory
Two: Philip Pettit
Response-dependence
Pettit's response-dependence and Kantianism
From Kantianism to Noumenalism
Complicating the debate
Pettit's trilemma
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Three: Thomas Kuhn
Pettit and Kuhn on language learning
Kuhn's Kantianism
Residual issues concerning Kuhn's Kantianism
From Kantianism to incommensurability
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Four: Donald Davidson
Radical interpretation and Kantianism
Language learning and Kantianism
Reconcilable and irreconcilable differences
The curious case of Swampman
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Part Three: Defending Kantianism's borders
Five: Defending dualism
Scheme/content dualism and (my) dualism
First half of Davidson's argument against the scheme side
Second half of Davidson's argument against the scheme side
Evaluating that second half
Davidson's argument against the content side
Dualism defended
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Six: Defending principlism
Kant's principlism
Classic arguments against Kant's principlism
Carnap's principlism
Quine's arguments against Carnap's principlism
Friedman's principlism
Defending Friedman's principlism
Principlism defended
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Part Four: Looking for new land within Kantianism's borders
Seven: From dualism to a Kantian account of meaning
Kantian account of meaning
Kantian account explored
Platonic realist account of meaning
Aristotelian realist account of meaning
Berkeleian idealist account of meaning
Lockean hybridist account of meaning
Hegelian pragmatist account of meaning
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Eight: Problems that Kantian account of meaning faces
First three putative problems: Indeterminacy, relativism, and incommensurability
Fourth and fifth putative problem: Infinite regression and truth -value relativism
Sixth putative problem: Empirical-property relativism
Seventh putative problem: A plurality of empirical worlds
Eighth putative problem: Movability between empirical worlds
The unity of reason
Lessons of Kantian conceptual geography
Nine: From principlism to Kantian thoughts on truth
Anthropocentric Kantian thoughts from Kant
Ethnocentric Kantian thoughts from Kuhn, Carnap, and Friedman
Un-principled Kantian thoughts from Pettit and Quine
Logocentric Kantian thoughts from Davidson
The historical story in full
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Part Five: Lessons for us
Ten: "Some idea had seized the sovereignty of his mind"
Subjectivity, objectivity, principles, and the empirical
Response-dependence, noumenalism, and incommensurability
Subjective scope and relevant timing
Dualism and principlism defended
Meaning, subjectively empirical worlds, and empirical truth
Dostoevsky is (still) immortal!
One: Dualism, principlism, Kantianism
Kantianism
Kantianism and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Contrasting views
The plan of this work
Naturalism
Part Two: Exploring Kantian territory
Two: Philip Pettit
Response-dependence
Pettit's response-dependence and Kantianism
From Kantianism to Noumenalism
Complicating the debate
Pettit's trilemma
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Three: Thomas Kuhn
Pettit and Kuhn on language learning
Kuhn's Kantianism
Residual issues concerning Kuhn's Kantianism
From Kantianism to incommensurability
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Four: Donald Davidson
Radical interpretation and Kantianism
Language learning and Kantianism
Reconcilable and irreconcilable differences
The curious case of Swampman
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Part Three: Defending Kantianism's borders
Five: Defending dualism
Scheme/content dualism and (my) dualism
First half of Davidson's argument against the scheme side
Second half of Davidson's argument against the scheme side
Evaluating that second half
Davidson's argument against the content side
Dualism defended
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Six: Defending principlism
Kant's principlism
Classic arguments against Kant's principlism
Carnap's principlism
Quine's arguments against Carnap's principlism
Friedman's principlism
Defending Friedman's principlism
Principlism defended
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Part Four: Looking for new land within Kantianism's borders
Seven: From dualism to a Kantian account of meaning
Kantian account of meaning
Kantian account explored
Platonic realist account of meaning
Aristotelian realist account of meaning
Berkeleian idealist account of meaning
Lockean hybridist account of meaning
Hegelian pragmatist account of meaning
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Eight: Problems that Kantian account of meaning faces
First three putative problems: Indeterminacy, relativism, and incommensurability
Fourth and fifth putative problem: Infinite regression and truth -value relativism
Sixth putative problem: Empirical-property relativism
Seventh putative problem: A plurality of empirical worlds
Eighth putative problem: Movability between empirical worlds
The unity of reason
Lessons of Kantian conceptual geography
Nine: From principlism to Kantian thoughts on truth
Anthropocentric Kantian thoughts from Kant
Ethnocentric Kantian thoughts from Kuhn, Carnap, and Friedman
Un-principled Kantian thoughts from Pettit and Quine
Logocentric Kantian thoughts from Davidson
The historical story in full
Lessons for Kantian conceptual geography
Part Five: Lessons for us
Ten: "Some idea had seized the sovereignty of his mind"
Subjectivity, objectivity, principles, and the empirical
Response-dependence, noumenalism, and incommensurability
Subjective scope and relevant timing
Dualism and principlism defended
Meaning, subjectively empirical worlds, and empirical truth
Dostoevsky is (still) immortal!
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