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  • Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories

    Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation and Corroboration

    Kenneth R. Westphal

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    Immanuel Kant’s ‘Transcendental Deduction of the Categories’ addresses issues centrally debated today in philosophy and in cognitive sciences, especially in epistemology, and in theory of perception. Kant’s insights into these issues are clouded by pervasive misunderstandings of Kant’s ‘Deduction’ and its actual aims, scope, and argument. The present edition with its fresh and accurate translation and concise commentary aims to serve these contemporary debates as well as continuing intensive and extensive scholarship on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Two surprising results are that ‘Transcendental Deduction’ is valid and sound, and it holds independently of Kant’s transcendental idealism. This lucid volume is interesting and useful to students, yet sufficiently detailed to be informative to specialists.

    Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Boğaziçi University, İstanbul. His research focuses on the character and scope of rational justification in non-formal, substantive domains, both moral and theoretical. His books include several volumes on Kant.

    “This compact book will be of very considerable interest to scholars in philosophy and in cognitive science working on Kant’s Kritik der reinen Vernunft / Critique of Pure Reason, especially those concerned with perceptual judgment and with self-consciousness, self-ascription or apperception. It is also an ideal text for advanced courses and seminars treating Kant’s 1787 version of the Transcendental Deduction. The book is constructed to strongly promote running comparison of Kant’s German prose with Westphal’s highly competent translation. Westphal’s succinct analytic commentary culls through two centuries worth of secondary literature to lay out the essential terminological, conceptual, and historical presuppositions of Kant’s key claims and arguments. For decades now, I have been looking for a bilingual edition of the 1787 Deduction suitable for advanced teaching purposes—an edition of the format and sharply focussed scholarly quality exhibited by Westphal’s book. It is especially gratifying to know that this work is freely accessible to everyone.”

    Professor Jeff Edwards, Stony Brook University, United States

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    Book Reviews (3):

      Review from 07 Nov 2022: History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis Vol. 25 Issue 2 (2022)
      Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories, written by Kenneth R. Westphal

      Lara Scaglia

      Summary: [the book] allows the reader to read the Deduction in a fresh way – which is quite an enterprise! – and provides solid grounds for engaging in a debate with analytic philosophers.

      Read the full review here

      Review from 18 Nov 2022: Hegel Bulletin
      Kenneth R. Westphal, Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation and Corroboration. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2021.

      Andrew Stephenson

      Summary: It is a very welcome addition to the bold and sophisticated interpretation of Kant’s theoretical philosophy that Westphal has been developing in print for the best part of three decades.

      The full review cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.

      Review from 22 Feb 2022: Kantian Review
      Book review: Kenneth R. Westphal, Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation and Corroboration

      Jan Johansson

      Summary: Like any other great thinker in the history of philosophy, Kant has been the subject of so many commentaries that the original texts and context in which they were written seems lost. Rather than commenting the texts and uncovering the meaning of what they say, commentaries become comments on other commentaries. […] Against this background it is highly welcome that Kenneth R. Westphal has written a book on Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories that promises to unburden itself from the ‘commentary genre’.

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    Westphal, K. 2021. Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation and Corroboration. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-7
    Westphal, K.R., 2021. Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation and Corroboration. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-7
    Westphal, K R. Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-examination, Elucidation and Corroboration. Helsinki University Press, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-7
    Westphal, K. R. (2021). Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation and Corroboration. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-7
    Westphal, Kenneth R.. 2021. Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-examination, Elucidation and Corroboration. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-7




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    Published on April 7, 2021

    Language

    English

    Pages:

    118

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    Paperback 978-952-369-028-8
    PDF 978-952-369-029-5

    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-7



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