TY - BOOK ID - 78983091 TI - Kant's transcendental proof of realism PY - 2009 SN - 9780521108928 9780521833738 9780511584497 9780511266027 0511266022 9780511262159 0511262159 0511584490 0521833736 1139810138 110716091X 0511263759 0511317662 1299398863 0511265301 0511264585 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Kant, Immanuel KW - Kant, Immanuel, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78983091 AB - This book is the first detailed study of Kant's method of 'transcendental reflection' and its use in the Critique of Pure Reason to identify our basic human cognitive capacities, and to justify Kant's transcendental proofs of the necessary a priori conditions for the possibility of self-conscious human experience. Kenneth Westphal, in a closely argued internal critique of Kant's analysis, shows that if we take Kant's project seriously in its own terms, the result is not transcendental idealism but (unqualified) realism regarding physical objects. Westphal attends to neglected topics - Kant's analyses of the transcendental affinity of the sensory manifold, the 'lifelessness of matter', fallibilism, the semantics of cognitive reference, four externalist aspects of Kant's views, and the importance of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations for the Critique of Pure Reason - that illuminate Kant's enterprise in new and valuable ways. His book will appeal to all who are interested in Kant's theoretical philosophy. ER -