Kant’s Critique of Wolff’s Dogmatic Method: Comments on Gava
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Michael Walschots
Abstract
In Chapter 8 of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics, one of Gabriele Gava’s aims is to argue that Kant’s critique of Wolff’s dogmatic method has two levels: one directed against Wolff’s metaphilosophical views and one attacking his actual procedures of argument. After providing a brief summary of the main claims Gava makes in Chapter 8 of his book, in this paper I argue two things. First, I argue against Gava’s claim that the two forms of dogmatism he distinguishes between are incompatible. Second, I suggest, contrary to Gava, that Kant’s critique of these two forms of dogmatism both operate on the metaphilosophical level in the sense that they both target the dogmatist’s beliefs or theory about the method they take themselves to be following.
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- Frontmatter
- Book symposium on Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics
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- Transcendental Deduction and Cognitive Constructivism
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Book symposium on Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics
- Kant’s Critique of Wolff’s Dogmatic Method: Comments on Gava
- General Logic and the Method of Metaphysical Deductions
- Transcendental Deduction and Cognitive Constructivism
- The Origin and Validity of Root Concepts, the Place of General Logic Within Transcendental Logic and Kant’s Critique of Dogmatism: A Response to My Critics
- Book Reviews
- Karin de Boer: Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics: The Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered
- Schüz, Simon: Transzendentale Argumente bei Hegel und Fichte. Das Problem objektiver Geltung und seine Auflösung im nachkantischen Idealismus
- Daniele De Santis: Husserl and the A Priori. Phenomenology and Rationality (Contributions to Phenomenology Vol. 114)
- Aurélien Djian: Husserl et l’horizon comme problème. Une contribution à l’histoire de la phénoménologie, Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2021, Pp. 292, ISBN 978-2-7574-3334-8, (pb) € 20,00
- Nobili, Filippo: La prospettiva del tempo. L’idealismo fenomenologico di Husserl come autoesplicitazione della soggettività trascendentale
