Plato and Kantian Transcendental Constructivism

In this chapter I discuss Kant’s view of cognition against the historical background. In particular, I stress a historical approach to Kant in depicting the critical philosophy as reacting to and correcting the Platonic position. In the Critique of Pure R

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Halla Kim • Steven Hoeltzel Editors

Transcendental Inquiry Its History, Methods and Critiques

Editors Halla Kim Department of Philosophy and Religion University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska, USA

ISBN 978-3-319-40714-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40715-9

Steven Hoeltzel Department of Philosophy and Religion James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA

ISBN 978-3-319-40715-9 (eBook)

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Contents

1 Kant on the “Conditions of the Possibility” of Experience Claude Piché 2 Plato and Kantian Transcendental Constructivism Tom Rockmore 3 Kant and Fichte on the Notion of (Transcendental) Freedom Violetta L. Waibel

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4 Fichte, Transcendental Ontology, and the Ethics of Belief Steven Hoeltzel

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5 Transcendental Philosophy as “Therapy of the Mind” Benjamin D. Crowe

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6 From Transcendental Philosophy to Hegel’s Developmental Method William F. Bristow 7 How Transcendental Is Cohen’s Critical Idealism? Halla Kim

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8 Heidegger’s Failure to Overcome Transcendental Philosophy Eric S. Nelson 9 Others as the Ground of our Existence Robert Stern 10 Raising Validity Claims for Reasons Matthias Kettner

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11 Transcendental Arguments Based on Question–Answer Contradictions Yukio Irie

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12 Consequences of the Transcendental-Pragmatic Consensus Theory of Truth Michihito Yoshime

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13 On Jürgen Habermas’s Cognitive Theory of Morality Yasuyuki Funaba

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Index

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List of Abbreviations

Primary texts referenced repeatedly throughout the volume are cited in the notes using the followi