Real Existence, Ideal Necessity: Kant's Compromise, and the Modalities without the Compromise (Kantstudien-Erganzungshete)

233 Pages·2008·0.64 MB·English

by  Greenberg

Robert Greenberg
Real Existence, Ideal Necessity
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Kantstudien
Ergänzungshefte
im Auftrage der Kant-Gesellschaft
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Manfred Baum, Bernd Dörflinger
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Robert Greenberg
Real Existence, Ideal Necessity
Kant’s Compromise, and the Modalities
without the Compromise
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Acknowledgements
Earlier versions of portions of this book have been read at various phi-
losophical conferences and meetings, and among these, some have been
published. An earlier version of much of chapter 3 was read at the
American Philosophical Association Meetings, Eastern Division, 2004. I
wish to express my thanks to Tim Rosenkoetter for his useful comments
on the paper. And I want to thank the editor and the publisher of
Kantian Review for their kind permission to use some of that material in
an article that appeared in KR, vol.11, 2006. The same KR article also
contains much of a paper delivered to the American Philosophical As-
sociation Meetings, Central Division, 2004, and I am indebted to Gary
Hatfieldforhishelpfulcommentsonthatpaper,whichisalsoanancestor
of a portion of a different chapter in this book, chapter 9; and I would
liketothanktheeditorandthepublisherof KRforpermission toreprint
that material. Chapter4 contains material that appeared earlieras apaper
delivered at the American Philosophical Association Meetings, Central
Division, 2002, and I would like to thank Gordon Brittan for his
commentsonthatpaper.Asubsequentversionof thepaperwasdelivered
at the 21st World Congress of Philosophy, 2003, Istanbul. Chapter5
originatedasapaperdeliveredatasymposiumsharedwithRobertHanna
and Robert Howell, commentator, on Kant and Analytic Philosophy, at
the Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Divi-
sion, 2002, and I would like to thank Howell for his comments on my
paper.Anearlierversionofaportionofchapter8wasdeliveredatthe10th
International Kant Congress, Sao Paulo, 2005, and published in the
Proceedings of the Congress. I would like to thank the editors and the
publisher of the Proceedings for their kind permission to include material
from the paper in this book.
I am also indebted to Kenneth Edward Walden, a Kant student know-
ledgeable in modal logic, who read through an earlier version of the
manuscriptwithaneyetotheadequacyofmyusesofmodallogic,andin
particular, the logical formulations and the derivations of the modalities
inchapters10and11.Finally,IwouldagainliketothankRichardAquila
for his continuing encouragement of and assistance in the publication of
my work on Kant generally.

Inhalt
Preface ............................................... XI
Chapter1 – General Review .............................. 1
Part I: Existence
Chapter2 – How Our Knowledge Begins ................... 17
Chapter3 – A Criterion of Existence in General .............. 41
Chapter4 – Sensation and Existence ....................... 61
Chapter5 – Presupposition and Existence ................... 72
Part II: Necessity
Chapter6 – Kant’s Referential Ambiguity ................... 91
Chapter7 – Kaplan’s Referential Ambiguity .................. 104
Chapter8 – Kaplan’s Interpretation Adapted to Kant .......... 114
I Introduction ...................................... 114
II Sensibility ........................................ 117
III The Understanding ................................ 120
Chapter9 – Geometry and Causality ....................... 124
I Geometry ........................................ 124
II Causality ........................................ 139
Chapter10 – Presupposition and Real Necessity .............. 147
Chapter11 – Derivations of the Real Modalities .............. 173
Chapter12 – Conclusion ................................ 192
References ............................................ 199
Index ................................................ 202