tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post8223504107637697309..comments2024-03-28T12:50:25.792-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: READING THE CRITIQUE PART FIFTEENRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-5155337330948918222011-08-15T19:58:47.319-04:002011-08-15T19:58:47.319-04:00By far the best source is Zammito's,Kant, Herd...By far the best source is Zammito's,<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ik4fIyBslCUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=zammito+herder&hl=en&ei=fbFJToLBL5SJsALY-5SnCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">Kant, Herder and the Birth of Anthropology</a><br /><br />Sloan's <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy/v040/40.2sloan.html" rel="nofollow">"Preforming the Categories"</a> is what first got me interested.<br /><br />Zammito's <a href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5Z6MmN0AJfAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA51&dq=preforming+the+categories&ots=gX09SqwdJv&sig=-cvqcKaZkcHlk0FSLGDRR_pKIWI#v=onepage&q=preforming%20the%20categories&f=false" rel="nofollow"> Kant's Persistent Ambivalence</a> is also good, i.e short and accessible in a large chunk on Google scholar.jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08997764980090710561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-35860497687678133782011-08-15T19:21:38.634-04:002011-08-15T19:21:38.634-04:00That is interesting. Can you point me to some sou...That is interesting. Can you point me to some sources?Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-62640035399508701222011-08-15T19:18:26.776-04:002011-08-15T19:18:26.776-04:00But these questions seem never to have so much as ...But these questions seem never to have so much as occurred to Kant, nor indeed did the corresponding questions occur to Hume, or to Locke, or to Descartes or Leibniz or Spinoza.<br /><br />This is not exactly correct. In fact, I think Kant was worried about the possibility of contingent sources of the Categories. PR Sloan, in Preforming the Categories, gives textual evidence for the worry in both a biolgical and a cultural context. The worry is biological insofar as Kant uses biological terminology, preformation and epigenesis, to describe the origin of the Categories. The worry of cultural effects on the Categories grows out of his contact with Herder. He, of course, can't admit that the categories are contingent but I think it does become a worry for him.jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08997764980090710561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-5302145532429252862011-08-15T14:59:28.000-04:002011-08-15T14:59:28.000-04:00Sound great! I'm enjoying the series very much...Sound great! I'm enjoying the series very much, by the way.English Jerkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14960822939548263926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-45354240016123148942011-08-15T12:40:36.901-04:002011-08-15T12:40:36.901-04:00That in fact is an easy question to answer from Ka...That in fact is an easy question to answer from Kant's point of view, but it is a little complicated. Let me tackle it tomorow before going on to the Analogies.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-10088629578606563332011-08-15T12:34:45.765-04:002011-08-15T12:34:45.765-04:00Another question we might raise is the one Meillas...Another question we might raise is the one Meillasoux opens his interesting book <i>After Finitude</i> with: If we accept that Kant has grounded the natural sciences, what happens when the natural sciences are capable of determining (through carbon-dating and the like) that specific spatio-temporal objects existed before the human species? If the world was timeless before there were people to impose temporal structure on it, how did we ever arrive at the moment in which such people could come into being?English Jerkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14960822939548263926noreply@blogger.com