Critical Idealism and Transcendal Materialism: A Speculative Analysis of the Second Paralogism

This paper argues that the critical doctrine of the necessary unity of the thinking subject propounded in Kant’s Second Paralogism contains an idealist commitment to the metaphysically exceptional nature of the unifying activity of thought. Rather than rejecting Kant’s transcendental framework as ne...

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Main Author: Michael J. Olson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op. 2011-06-01
Series:Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/236/324