Kant's Radical Subjectivism (eBook)

Dennis Schulting is former Assistant Professor of Metaphysics and its History at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick, UK, in 2004. He specialises in Kant and German Idealism, with a focus on issues in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics. He has published in journals such as the Philosophical Review, Kantian Review, Kant-Studien, Kant Yearbook, Studi kantiani, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte and the Hegel Bulletin, and has contributed essays to multiple book volumes. He is author of Kant’s Deduction and Apperception: Explaining the Categories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and editor of Kantian Nonconceptualism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Preface

Key to Abbreviations of Cited Primary Works

1 Kant’s Radical Subjectivism—An Introductory Essay

Part I: From Apperception to Objectivity

2 Kant’s Deduction From Apperception

3 “Pure Consciousness Is Found Already in Logic”: Apperception, Spontaneity, and Judgement

4 Gap? What Gap?—On the Unity of Apperception and the Necessary Application of the

Categories

Part II: Nonconceptual Content, Space, and A Priori Synthesis

5 Problems of Kantian Nonconceptualism and the Transcendental Deduction

6 Kant’s Threefold Synthesis On a Moderately Conceptualist Interpretation

7 Figurative Synthesis, Spatial Unity, and the Possibility of Perceptual Knowledge

Part III: Subjectivism, Material Synthesis, and Idealism

8 On Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Subjectivism in the Transcendental Deduction

9 Subjectivism, Material Synthesis, and Idealism