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Matter in Mind

A Study of Kant's Transcendental Deduction

by Richard E. Aquila

Elaborating a theory of consciousness that Kant made only partially explicit in the Transcendental Deduction of the Critique of Pure Reason, Richard E. Aquila offers a novel reading of Kant's theories of synthesis and conceptual rules, productive and reproductive imagination, the distinction between judgments of perception and experience, and the relations between self and objects. Aquila builds on the Transcendental Aesthetic's view of the formation of intuitional consciousness out of sensory matter and proposes a theory of concept formation, in the Transcendental Deduction, out of analogously conceived bodies of imaginative matter. Kant is seen here as offering a formidable synthesis of the purely animal and the distinctively human in human consciousness.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter One: The Framework
    • I. Introduction
    • II. Some Correlations and Distinctions
    • III. Primitive Directedness vs. Translatable Content in Intuition
    • IV. Objects and Appearances
  • Chapter Two: Extending the Framework
    • I. Introduction
    • II. Conceptual Material and a Subject s Dispositions
    • III. Some Comparisons
  • Chapter Three: Synthesis
    • I. Introduction
    • II. The Transformation of Intuition
    • III. The Manifold of Intuition
    • IV. Kinds of Anticipation and Retention
    • V. Synthesis and Rules
  • Chapter Four: Production, Reproduction, and Affinity
    • I. Introduction
    • II. From Association to Affinity
    • III. Kinds of Affinity
  • Chapter Five: The Second-Edition Deduction
    • I. Introduction
    • II. The Ambiguity of Synthesis
    • III. Judgments of Perception and Experience
    • IV. The Structure of the Deduction
  • Chapter Six: Self-Consciousness
    • I. Introduction
    • II. Consciousness and Concept Formation
    • III. Determinate and Indeterminate Self-Consciousness
    • IV. Self-Consciousness and the Imaginative Content of Perception
  • Chapter Seven: Toward the Categories
    • I. Introduction
    • II. From Matter to Form: General Structures
    • III. Causality, Substance, and Community of Interaction
    • IV. Appendix: Judgments about the Past
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

Metadata

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    978-0-253-05584-2
  • publisher
    Indiana University Press
  • publisher place
    Bloomington, Indiana USA
  • restrictions
    CC-BY-NC-ND
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    Copyright © Trustees of Indiana University
  • rights holder
    Indiana University Press
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