Transcendental Deduction and Cognitive Constructivism
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Luigi Filieri
Abstract
In these comments, I share some remarks concerning two main points lying at the core of Gava’s book Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics: Gava’s reconstruction and account of a transcendental deduction, its relation to a metaphysical deduction, and more specifically his reading of the B-Deduction. I will discuss Gava’s arguments in order to highlight the key tenets of his interpretation and raise questions related to (1) the meaning and scope of the notion of ‘transcendental’; and (2) the commitment to – and the extent of – what we might call ‘cognitive constructivism’.
Funding source: DAAD-PRIME
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Research funding: This work was supported by the DAAD-PRIME.
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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
