Kant on the original synthesis of understanding and sensibility.
In this paper, I propose a novel interpretation of the role of the understanding in generating the unity of space and time. On the account I propose, we must distinguish between the unity that belongs to determinate spaces and times - which is a result of category-guided synthesis and which is Kant'...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 66 - 87 |
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