Abstract
Counteracting a widespread interpretation of Schelling’s project of a philosophy of nature as anti-Kantian, this paper claims that Kant’s doctrine of the schematism plays a central role in the emergence and development of Schelling’s project. My argument will be structured in the following way. First, I will discuss Schelling’s reception of the schematism in his Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature of 1797, especially as regards his association of it with Kant’s dynamical conception of matter in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Relying on this reconstruction, I will argue, secondly, that Schelling brings together a central issue of the Critique of Pure Reason (the objectivity of pure concepts) and the overall problem of the Metaphysical Foundations (the transition from pure philosophy to empirical sciences) by addressing the issue of a schematism specifically related to outer sense. Thirdly, I maintain that this issue is at the core of the overall argument developed in the Ideas, where it appears in the form of a schematism of “materiality as such”. Finally, I suggest that the notion of a schematism of materiality as such offers a useful key to understanding the unfolding of Schelling’s project between 1797 and 1800.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Articles
- Reappraising Plato’s Cratylus
- Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on Animal Cognition and Immortality
- Questioning Authority: Anthony Collins’ Challenge to Orthodox Anglican Authority Figures and George Berkeley’s Reply
- The Importance of Kant’s Schematism for Schelling’s Project of a Philosophy of Nature
- Sellars’s Core Critique of C. I. Lewis: Against the Equation of Aboutness with Givenness
- Book Reviews
- Proops, Ian. The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant's Dialectic. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021, xiv + 486 pp.
- Textor, Mark. The Disappearance of the Soul and the Turn against Metaphysics: Austrian Philosophy 1874–1918. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021, xv + 386 pp.