Kant on the Unity of Space and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception
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James Messina
Abstract: In the Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant famously characterizes space as a unity, understood as an essentially singular whole. He further develops his account of the unity of space in the B-Deduction, where he relates the unity of space to the original synthetic unity of apperception, and draws an infamous distinction between form of intuition and formal intuition. Kant’s cryptic remarks in this part of the Critique have given rise to two widespread and diametrically opposed readings, which I call the Synthesis and Brute Given Readings. I argue for an entirely new reading, which I call the Part-Whole Reading, in part by considering the development of Kant’s views on the unity of space from his earliest works up through crucial reflections written during the silent decade.
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- TITELLLL
- Joachim Kopper (1925–2013)
- Kant on the Unity of Space and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception
- Kant on Opinion: Assent, Hypothesis, and the Norms of General Applied Logic
- The Primacy of the Good Will
- Kants Anti-Spinozismus – Eine Antwort auf Omri Boehm
- Armin Erlinghagen Karl Heinrich Heydenreich als philosophischer Schriftsteller
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- Mitteilungen
