Kant als metaphilosophischer Skeptizist?
Throughout history, both philosophers and non-philosophers have doubted that philosophical positions qua philosophical positions are justified and that philosophy is a rational enterprise. Today, such doubts are grouped under the term “Metaphilosophical Skepticism”. Nicholas Rescher, in his book Strife of Systems, includes Kant among the proponents of this kind of skepticism. I want to argue that while Rescher is wrong, Kant has contributed to a new version of such skepticism. In the first...
The Transcendental Deduction of Categories as Philosophical Proof
My aim is to reconstruct the basic steps and the fundamental idea of Kant’s transcendental deduction of categories as well as Hegel’s interpretation and reframing of Kant’s idea. Hegel’s reading is crucial for two reasons: first, for fixing the basic form of the Kantian argument and secondly, for understanding its metaphilosophical relevance. For Hegel, philosophical proof has a specific nature, which distinguishes it from scientific proof and brings it closer to a juridical one. In this...
Kant and Analysis
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Lewin, M., 2022. The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense. Open Philosophy, 5(1), pp. 340-359.
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Lewin, M., 2023. Metaphilosophie als einheitliche Disziplin. Berlin: Springer & Metzler.
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McAndrew, M., 2022. Kant’s Theory of Concept Formation and his Theory of Definitions. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
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Introduction to ‘Kant and Metaphilosophy’
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Lewin, M., 2023. Metaphilosophie als einheitliche Disziplin. Berlin: Springer & Metzler.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66704-0
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The Ethics of the Categorical Imperative. Lossky under the Influence of Kant
The Russian intuitivist philosopher Nikolay Lossky repeatedly admitted Kant’s substantial formative influence on him as a scholar. Moreover, Lossky was a disciple of the Russian Kantian Aleksander Vvedensky, and was one of the most successful translators of the first Critique. However, his own philosophical project is rather the opposite of the critical programme. While in the framework of Lossky’s epistemology the specificities of his reading of Kant have received a fair amount of attention...
Book Review: M. Lewin, Das System der Ideen: Zur perspektivistischen Begründung der Vernunft im Anschluss an Kant und Fichte. Freiburg & München: Alber, 2021, 378 pp.
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Lewin, M., 2021...
Transcendental Philosophy as a Scientific Research Programme
Transcendental philosophy was not born like Athena out of Zeus’s head, mature and in full armour from the very beginning. That is why in both prefaces to the Critique of Pure Reason (1781 and 1787) Kant introduces the concept of transcendental philosophy as an “idea.” The idea understood architectonically develops slowly and only gradually acquires a definite form. As witnessed by the works of Kant himself and of his predecessors and followers, the idea of transcendental philosophy has undergone...