Thomas C. Vinci aims to reveal and assess the structure of Kant's argument in the
Critique of Pure Reason called the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories. At the end of the first part of the Deduction in the B-edition Kant states that his purpose is achieved: to show that all
intuitions in general are subject to the categories. On the standard reading, this means that all of our mental representations, including those originating in sense-experience, are structured by conceptualization.
But this reading encounters an exegetical problem: Kant states in the second part of the Deduction that a major part of what remains to be shown is that
empirical intuitions are subject to the categories. How can this be if it has already been shown that intuitions
in general are subject to the
categories? Vinci calls this the Triviality Problem, and he argues that solving it requires denying the standard reading. In its place he proposes that intuitions in general and empirical intuitions constitute disjoint classes and that, while all intuitions for Kant are unified, there are two kinds
of unification: logical unification vs. aesthetic unification. Only the former is due to the categories.
A second major theme of the book is that Kant's Idealism comes in two versions-for laws of nature and for objects of empirical intuition-and that demonstrating these versions is the ultimate goal of the Deduction of the Categories and the similarly structured Deduction of the Concepts of Space,
respectively. Vinci shows that the Deductions have the argument structure of an inference to the best explanation for correlated domains of
explananda, each arrived at by independent applications of Kantian epistemic and geometrical methods.
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Dimensions (WxH):
6.95 x 9.38
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date:
December 01, 2014