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Kantian Humility

Rae Langton
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      Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of "things in themselves". Kant distinguishes "things in themselves" from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Kant says that phenomena - things as we know them - consist "entirely of relations", by which he means forces. 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 humility has its roots in some plausible philosophical beliefs: an empiricist belief in the receptivity of human knowledge and a metaphysical belief in the irreducibility of relational properties. Langton's 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Rae Langton EAN: 9780199243174 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 365 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-01-18 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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      Rae Langton is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
      Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of "things in themselves". Kant distinguishes "things in themselves" from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Kant says that phenomena - things as we know them - consist "entirely of relations", by which he means forces. 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 humility has its roots in some plausible philosophical beliefs: an empiricist belief in the receptivity of human knowledge and a metaphysical belief in the irreducibility of relational properties. Langton's 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Rae Langton EAN: 9780199243174 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 365 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-01-18 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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      Rae Langton is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

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