Kant and the empiricists : understanding understanding /
Waxman presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophies of the British empiricists - Locke, Berkeley, Hume - with that of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Kant and British empiricism ; Kant's extension of Humean skepticism to mathematics ; A Kantian way out of Hume's quandary ; Hostage to stereotypes
- Part I, Locke's new model philosophy: from the metaphysics of substance to the psychology of human understanding. Locke's theory of ideas ; Perception and the synthesis of experience ; Objective understanding ; Understanding in language ; Knowledge and skepticism
- Part II, Berkeley's modest proposal: a world of ideas. Berkeley's separability principle: semantics, psychology, and ontology ; Berkeleyan idealism: the inseparability of existence, sensation, and perception ; Objective understanding dismantled ; Objective understanding transformed
- Part III, Hume's affective affinities: associative attraction by reflexive projection. The pre-Humean problem of origins ; From origins of ideas to ideas of origins: causality psychologized ; The nature of relation ; The role of custom in associative understanding ; Reasoning reasonably ; The supreme principle of Hume's theory of understanding.