Reason, Its Real Use, and the Status of Its Ideas and Principles: Response to Caimi, Gava, and Lewin

In this contribution, I respond to articles published in a Topical Issue of Open Philosophy on Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic by Mario Caimi, Gabriele Gava, and Michael Lewin, who criticize some of the views I put forward in my book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason (...

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Main Author: Willaschek Marcus
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Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-11-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0221
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description In this contribution, I respond to articles published in a Topical Issue of Open Philosophy on Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic by Mario Caimi, Gabriele Gava, and Michael Lewin, who criticize some of the views I put forward in my book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2018). In particular, I discuss the “real use” of reason (in response to Caimi), the “regulative use” of principles and ideas of reason (in response to Gava), and Kant’s conception of reason (in response to Lewin).
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spelling doaj.art-9b9808f53edc4e9fbb63b2595c9aa5992022-12-22T04:36:03ZengDe GruyterOpen Philosophy2543-88752022-11-015168969810.1515/opphil-2022-0221Reason, Its Real Use, and the Status of Its Ideas and Principles: Response to Caimi, Gava, and LewinWillaschek Marcus0Department of Philosophy, Goethe-UniversityFrankfurt am Main, GermanyIn this contribution, I respond to articles published in a Topical Issue of Open Philosophy on Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic by Mario Caimi, Gabriele Gava, and Michael Lewin, who criticize some of the views I put forward in my book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2018). In particular, I discuss the “real use” of reason (in response to Caimi), the “regulative use” of principles and ideas of reason (in response to Gava), and Kant’s conception of reason (in response to Lewin).https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0221kanttranscendental dialecticreal use of reasonregulative principlesregulative ideasreason
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Reason, Its Real Use, and the Status of Its Ideas and Principles: Response to Caimi, Gava, and Lewin
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kant
transcendental dialectic
real use of reason
regulative principles
regulative ideas
reason
title Reason, Its Real Use, and the Status of Its Ideas and Principles: Response to Caimi, Gava, and Lewin
title_full Reason, Its Real Use, and the Status of Its Ideas and Principles: Response to Caimi, Gava, and Lewin
title_fullStr Reason, Its Real Use, and the Status of Its Ideas and Principles: Response to Caimi, Gava, and Lewin
title_full_unstemmed Reason, Its Real Use, and the Status of Its Ideas and Principles: Response to Caimi, Gava, and Lewin
title_short Reason, Its Real Use, and the Status of Its Ideas and Principles: Response to Caimi, Gava, and Lewin
title_sort reason its real use and the status of its ideas and principles response to caimi gava and lewin
topic kant
transcendental dialectic
real use of reason
regulative principles
regulative ideas
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