Transcendental idealism and direct realism in Kant
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dwyer, Phil | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Howe, Leslie | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Regnier, Daniel | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Zichy, Francis | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Pfeifer, Karl | en_US |
| dc.creator | Sopuck, Forrest Adam | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-12-19T12:03:23Z | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-04T05:12:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-12-22T08:00:00Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-04T05:12:14Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2009-12 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-12-22 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | December 2009 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Kant scholarship has a long, rich history of disagreement and interpretive reservations regarding the Critique of Pure Reason. One disagreement is over whether the first Critique contains a sufficient proof of the doctrine of transcendental idealism. Another disagreement revolves around the question of whether Kant’s doctrine of transcendental idealism and its associated metaphysical/epistemological terms conflict with direct realism – a view that Kant also appears to be committed to. This thesis evaluates what Henry Allison, in his work entitled: Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: an Interpretation and Defense (1983), sets forth as the direct proof for transcendental idealism given in the first Critique. The inter-theoretical relation between transcendental idealism and direct realism is also evaluated, and argument is given for considering the two doctrines as consistent with one another after all. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-12192009-120323 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | epistemology | en_US |
| dc.subject | thing in itself | en_US |
| dc.subject | appearance | en_US |
| dc.subject | world | en_US |
| dc.title | Transcendental idealism and direct realism in Kant | en_US |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.type.material | text | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | Philosophy | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |