Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Rae Langton
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- History & Schools of Thought
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780199243174
- ISBN-10
- 0199243174
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
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ISBN: 0199243174
Author: Langton, Rae
Condition: New
In this refreshing and exceptional work, Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defense of Kant's doctrine of "things in themselves." Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, thus making a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Langton argues that his claim that we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility; we have no knowledge of the intrinsic properties of substances. This interpretation vindicates Kant's scientific realism and shows his primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior even to modern day competitors. And it answers the famous charge that Kant's tale of things in themselves is one that makes itself untellable.
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