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The Central Role of Cognition in Kant's Transcendental Deduction

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dc.contributor Wood, Allen W.
dc.creator Sommerlatte, Curtis
dc.date 2016-05-16T19:15:06Z
dc.date 2016-05-16T19:15:06Z
dc.date 2016-05
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-21T11:20:32Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-21T11:20:32Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2022/20865
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/253075
dc.description Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Philosophy, 2016
dc.description I argue that Kant’s primary epistemological concern in the Critique of Pure Reason’s transcendental deduction is empirical cognition. I show how empirical cognition is best understood as “rational sensory discrimination”: the capacity to discriminate sensory objects through the use of concepts and with a sensitivity to the normativity of reasons. My dissertation focuses on Kant’s starting assumption of the transcendental deduction, which I argue to be the thesis that we have empirical cognition. I then show how Kant’s own subjective deduction fleshes out his conception of empirical cognition and is intertwined with key steps in the transcendental deduction’s arguments that the categories have objective validity and that we have synthetic a priori cognition.
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University
dc.subject Philosophy
dc.subject Kant
dc.subject Cognition
dc.title The Central Role of Cognition in Kant's Transcendental Deduction
dc.type Doctoral Dissertation


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