Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
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| Management number | 232020945 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$18.96 | Model Number | 232020945 | ||
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Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defense of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Langton argues that his claim that we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility: we have no knowledge of the intrinsic properties of substances. This interpretation vindicates Kant's scientific realism, and shows his primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior even to modern-day competitors. And it answers the famous charge that Kant's tale of things in themselves is one that makes itself untellable. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0198236530 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0198236535 |
| Edition | 198th ed. |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Dimensions | 6.3 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.25 pounds |
| Print length | 248 pages |
| Publication date | November 12, 1998 |
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