Body and Practice in Kant (eBook)

Abbreviatons.- Introduction.- The embodied mind.- Seele, Gemüt and Geist.- Empirical and rational psychology and anthropology.- Some preliminary remarks on Kant's intellectual development.- Living forces.- New elucidation.- Universal natural history.- Maladies of the mind.- Dreams of a spirit-seer.- A crisis?- An embodied empiricism.- Kant's Inaugural dissertation.- A new perspective on the body-mind problem.- Holism in the Critique.- The virtual presence of the mind.- Anthropology.- Conclusion.- Body and space.- The European discussion of space in the 18th century.- Rousseau and space.- Directions in space.- A Copernican position?- Orientation.- Antropology.- Summary.- Rationality and embodied practice.- Practice.- Pragmatism.- The historical origin of Kant's pragmatism.- Rousseau's influence.- Basedow and Crusius.- Kant's theory of the understanding.- Concepts and rules.- Rules and practices.- Learning by doing.- The unconscious employment of the understanding.- Judgments cannot be learned.- Pragmatic priority.- Some modern parallels.- More about Kant's theory of concepts.- Summary.- A short summary of the first part of the book.- The body in the Critique.- The Critique- a brief presentation.- Phases, perspectives and continuities.- Some trends and positions in the interpretation of the Critique.- Transcendental philosophy.- Kant's Copernican perspective.- Some further remarks on the transcendental and the empirical.- Transcendental idealism.- What kind Kant mean?- Spatial experience and the body in the Critique.- A brief remark about the structure of my argument.- The architectonic of the Critique.- The cognitive theory of the Critique.- Synthesis.- The syntheses of imagination.- Apprehension.- Reproduction.- The B-deduction.- Transcendental apperception.- § 26 of the B- deduction.- Problems ofcomparison.- Two versions of the same theory?- Summary.- Spatial schematism.- The production of images.- The construction of geometrical figures.- Mental constructions?- Rossvær's anti-mentalist approach.- Kant's theory of mathematical construction.- Further remarks on the imagination.- Construction and subsumption.- The key argument.- Visual perception.- Schematism in the transcendental deduction.- Degrees of consciousness.- The empirical aspect of apprehension.- Falkenstein's argument concerning intuition and body in the Critique.- The embodied agent.- Summary.- The body and the transcendental.- The transcendental distinction.- The unknown subject.- The temptations of self-consciousness.- The unknown origin of affection.- From the empirical to the transcendental.- Kant's representationalism.- Kant's anti-skepticism.- More about the Kantian notion of a representation.- Summary.- Kant's transcendental epistemology.- The necessary structure of the world.- Problems.- The a priori.- Embodied practice as a condition of experience.- An empirical or a transcendental deduction?- The normativity of practice.- Arithmetic as an a priori synthethic science.- Thinking as practice.- Logic.- Transcendental logic.- The categories are acquired.- Summary.- Quantity.- Transcendental schematism.- Quantity.- The production of time.- Some objections and answers.- The relational categories.- The analogies of experience.- The second analogy.- The third analogy.- Time and the world.- Time measuring practices.- Causality and common sense physics.- Piaget and the cognitive development of the child.- Practice as a condition of experience.- Sensorimotor practices and the relational categories.- Causality and interaction.- Sensorimotor intelligence in the adult.- Objective time revisited.- A very brief remark on transcendental apperception.- The categories of quality and modality.-