Kant scholarship has a long, rich history of disagreement and interpretive reservations regarding the <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i>. One disagreement is over whether the first <i>Critique</i> contains a sufficient proof of the doctrine of <i>transcendental idealism</i>. Another disagreement revolves around the question of whether Kants doctrine of transcendental idealism and its associated metaphysical/epistemological terms conflict with <i>direct realism</i> a view that Kant also appears to be committed to. This thesis evaluates what Henry Allison, in his work entitled: <i>Kants Transcendental Idealism: an Interpretation and Defense</I> (1983), sets forth as the direct proof for transcendental idealism given in the first <i>Critique</i>. The inter-theoretical relation between transcendental idealism and direct realism is also evaluated, and argument is given for considering the two doctrines as consistent with one another after all.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:SSU.etd-12192009-120323 |
| Date | 22 December 2009 |
| Creators | Sopuck, Forrest Adam |
| Contributors | Dwyer, Phil, Howe, Leslie, Regnier, Daniel, Zichy, Francis, Pfeifer, Karl |
| Publisher | University of Saskatchewan |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-12192009-120323/ |
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