tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3203055525862166131..comments2024-03-28T22:33:29.066-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: HOME AGAINRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-92013866740528743932016-07-06T08:56:37.907-04:002016-07-06T08:56:37.907-04:00I will talk about this at length, but the short an...I will talk about this at length, but the short answer is that there is no way it can all be held together, and no reason to try, save piety. The only interesting question is this: Can we find in the CRITIQUE a coherent, straightforward argument that really answers Hume's scepticism about causal inference? The answer, I argue, is yes, and I shall lay it out in precise, step by step logical form, from premise to conclusion. Stay tuned.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-77503774894303924762016-07-05T21:52:23.460-04:002016-07-05T21:52:23.460-04:00I imagine this will be covered in the lectures, wh...I imagine this will be covered in the lectures, which I am excited for, but in your opinion, does one aim to make sense of everything holding together (as good as can be held), reading all the way through, or following the patchwork theory and attempting to put it together and Kant himself was putting it together over the preceding decade? I've asked myself that question from a few different vantage points within the Critique over the past year. <br /><br />Like lots within the Critique, and Kant in general, I am sure there are proponents of both trains of thought. Austin Haiglerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12317941729536870636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-24981704762614536672016-07-03T13:14:57.493-04:002016-07-03T13:14:57.493-04:00You will be reassured to learn that it does NOT al...You will be reassured to learn that it does NOT all hold together. Well done.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-85506220549823038582016-07-03T13:09:54.127-04:002016-07-03T13:09:54.127-04:00Well, I've made it to the "Table of Princ...Well, I've made it to the "Table of Principles" (B200 / A161). <br /><br />In the midst of the Brexit train wreck -- my London borough voted 3:1 to remain -- I am ever more sympathetic to Hannah Arendt's comment that "it is so much nicer to spend time with Kant".<br /><br /> But it is getting harder and harder to see how the first Critique all hangs together. Perhaps I should go back to the Introduction and start over again.wallyverrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18358344785499490511noreply@blogger.com