Kant, Science, and Human Nature

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ISBN: 9780199285549 | 0199285543
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Copyright: 12/7/2006

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Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the "exact sciences"--relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century. In doing so he makes a valuable contribution to one of the most active and fruitful areas in contemporary scholarship on Kant.

A Note on References to Kant's Works

Introduction

(1)

Kant, the Analytic Tradition, and the Exact Sciences

(7)

The Two Images Problem and Scientific Naturalism

(9)

The Critical Philosophy: A Working Idea

(12)

The Primacy of Human Nature

(6)

Part I. Empirical Realism and Scientific Realism

(212)

Direct Perceptual Realism I: The Refutation of Idealism

(44)

Introduction

(13)

Interpretation and Criticism of the Refutation

(18)

Space, Content Externalism, and Human Embodiment

(11)

The Reality of the Embodied Mind in Space

(2)

Direct Perceptual Realism II: Non-Conceptual Content

(59)

Introduction

(3)

Kant, Non-Conceptualism, and Conceptualism

(10)

Kant's Arguments for Non-Conceptualism

(21)

The Forms of Intuition and Non-Conceptual Content

115

(11)

The Role of Spatiotemporal Structure in Non-Conceptual Content

126

(6)

Direct Perceptual Realism Again

132

(8)

Manifest Realism I: A Critique of Scientific Essentialism

140

(51)

Introduction

140

(12)

What is Scientific Essentialism?

152

(8)

Objection I: The Empirical Inaccessibility of the Microphysical World

160

(11)

Objection II: Why There is No Necessary A Posteriori

171

(6)

Objection III: The Antinomy of Essentialism

177

(4)

Objection IV: The Logical Contingency of the Laws of Nature

181

(6)

Concluding Anti-Scientific-Essentialist Postscript

187

(4)

Manifest Realism II: Why Gold is Necessarily a Yellow Metal

191

(56)

Introduction

191

(12)

Kant's Theory of Natural Kind Terms

203

(17)

Scientific Realism in the Manifest Image

220

(22)

Kant's Other Joke

242

(5)

Part II. The Practical Foundations of the Exact Sciences

247

(206)

Truth and Human Nature

249

(38)

Introduction

249

(6)

The Definition of Truth

255

(20)

The Criterion of Truth

275

(2)

The Criteria of Truth

277

(5)

The Sense of Truth: Truth and Truthfulness

282

(5)

Mathematics for Humans

287

(54)

Introduction

287

(2)

Mathematics and Transcendental Idealism

289

(23)

Why Arithmetic is Synthetic A Priori

312

(8)

The Meaning of the Concept Number

320

(11)

Construction as Construal

331

(10)

How Do We Know Necessary Truths?

341

(45)

Introduction

341

(9)

Epistemic Necessity and Epistemic Apriority, Kant-Style

350

(12)

Insight in Conceptual Analysis

362

(17)

The Role of Insight in A Priori Knowledge in General

379

(4)

Theoretical Technique: A Priori Knowledge in Action

383

(3)

Where There's a Will There's a Way: Causation and Freedom

386

(67)

Introduction

386

(2)

Kant's Metaphysics of Causation: Three Analogies and an Antinomy

388

(28)

The Problem of Free Will and Kant's Embodied Agency Theory

416

(17)

Freedom and Nature

433

(17)

Freedom, Causation, and Time's Arrow

450

(3)

Bibliography

453

(22)

Index

475

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