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Kant’s transcendental deduction, non-conceptualism, and the fitness-for-purpose objection

Abstract:
The subject of this article is a powerful objection to the non-conceptualist interpretation of Kant’s transcendental deduction of the categories. Part of the purpose of the deduction is to refute the sort of scepticism according to which there are no objects of empirical intuition that instantiate the categories. But if the non-conceptualist interpretation is correct, it does not follow from what Kant is arguing in the transcendental deduction that this sort of scepticism is false. This article explains and assesses a number of possible responses to this objection.
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1017/s1369415417000383

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Humanities Division
Department:
Philosophy
Oxford college:
Christ Church, Trinity College
Department:
Oxford
Role:
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Journal:
Kantian Review More from this journal
Volume:
23
Issue:
1
Pages:
65-88
Publication date:
2018-02-23
Acceptance date:
2017-05-15
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EISSN:
2044-2394
ISSN:
1369-4154


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English
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1038789
Deposit date:
2019-08-06

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