Kant’s Deduction From Apperception: An Essay on the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories

Dennis Schulting

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Kant’s Deduction From Apperception

An Essay on the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories

Dennis Schulting

Volume 203 in the series Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110584301

About this book

In focusing on the systematic deduction of the categories from a principle, Schulting takes up anew the controversial project of the eminent German Kant scholar Klaus Reich, whose monograph “The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments” made the case that the logical functions of judgement can all be derived from the objective unity of apperception and can be shown to link up with one another systematically.

Common opinion among Kantians today has it that Kant did not mean to derive the functions of judgement, and accordingly the categories, from the principle of apperception. Schulting challenges this standard view and aims to resuscitate the main motivation behind Reich’s project. He argues, in agreement with Reich’s main thesis about the derivability of the functions of judgement, that Kant indeed does mean to derive, in full a priori fashion, the categories from the principle of apperception.

Schulting also shows that, given the general assumptions of the Critical philosophy, Kant's derivation is successful and that absent an account of the derivation of the categories from apperception, the B-Deduction cannot really be understood.

New edition. First published 2012 as „Kant’s Deduction and Apperception. Explaining the Categories" (Palgrave Macmillan)

Author / Editor information

Dennis Schulting, Independent Scholar, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preface to the New Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Preface to the First Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XXV
Key to Abbreviations of Cited Primary Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XXVII
1. Introduction: The Categories and Apperception Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The ‘Herz’ Question Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
3. The Quid Juris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
4. The Master Argument Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5. The Unity of Thought: On the Guiding Thread Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6. Apperception and the Categories of Modality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7. Apperception and the Categories of Relation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
8. Apperception and the Categories of Quality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
9. Apperception and the Categories of Quantity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
10. From Apperception to Objectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
11. On the ‘Second Step’ of the B-Deduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Bibliography of Secondary Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Second revised edition
Audience: Academics, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 28
- Main content: 344
Keywords: Kant; Immanuel; Categories; epistemology

eBook

Published: October 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110584301

Hardcover

Published: October 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110582697

Paperback

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110710267