Space, Time, and the Origins of Transcendental Idealism Immanuel
This book provides an account of the unity of Immanuel Kant’s early metaphysics, including the moment he invents transcendental idealism. Matthew Rukgaber argues that a division between “two worlds”—the world of matter, force, and space on the one hand, a
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Matthew Rukgaber
Space, Time, and the Origins of Transcendental Idealism
Matthew Rukgaber
Space, Time, and the Origins of Transcendental Idealism Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy from 1747 to 1770
Matthew Rukgaber Eastern Connecticut State University Willimantic, CT, USA
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Acknowledgments
While I remember having conversations about Kant after my first introduction to his thought, which was given to me by Sandra Edwards, a medievalist at the University of Arkansas, I did not plan to continue studying it. However, at the University of Illinois, I was introduced to the revolutionary interpretation that Arthur Melnick began publishing in the early 1980s, culminating with Space, Time, and Thought in Kant (1989, Kluwer) and the more accessible Themes in Kant’s Metaphysics and Ethics (2004, Catholic University Press). His embedding of Kant’s mature philosophy in action theory remains central to my own approach. I owe him a great debt. While this work is not a part of my dissertation, I do owe my dissertation committee member David Sussman thanks for pushing me to make sure that my approach to Kant’s theoretical philosophy was able to account for the metaphysical commitments generated by his moral and religious philosophy. I owe thanks also to Richard Schacht and William Schroeder, who sat on that committee, and to Richard Mohr, who (if I remember correctly) was on it at some point. Permission has been granted
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