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Kant and the Double Government Methodology

Supersensibility and Method in Kant’s Philosophy of Science

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  • © 1986

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Authors:
  1. Robert E. Butts

    1. Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 24)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 1-15

  3. Metaphysical Explanation in Leibniz: The Monads

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 16-43

  4. Leibniz on the Side of the Angels

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 44-62

  5. Kant, ESP, and the Inaugural Dissertation

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 63-102

  6. Soemmering and Euler: Space and the Soul

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 103-116

  7. Kant: Space and the Soul

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 117-145

  8. Rules, Images and Constructions: Kant’s Constructive Idealism

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 146-201

  9. Kant’s DGM: Two Fundamental Principles of Methodology

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 202-224

  10. Kant’s DGM: Hypotheses in Science

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 225-244

  11. Kant’s DGM: The Restoration of Teleology

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 245-281

  12. Central Nervous System Philosophers as Dieticians of the Mind

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 282-318

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 319-339
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About this book

This is a book about dreaming and knowing, and about thinking that one can ascertain the difference. It is a book about the Bernards of the world who would have us believe that there is a humanly uncreated world existing en Boi that freely dis­ closes its forever fixed ontology, even though they too must accept that -many of the worlds we make as we try to under­ stand ourselves are counterfeit. It is a book about the real estate of the human mind. The book is about Leibniz and Kant, and about methods of science. It is also about what is now called pseudo-science. It tries to show how Kant struggled to mark the limits of the humanly knowable, and how thi s strug­ gle involved him in trying to answer questions of importance then and now. Some are philosophers' questions: the epistemo­ logical status of mathematics, the role of space and time in knowing, the nature of the conceptual constraints on our ef­ forts to hypothesize the possible. Some are questions of per­ ennial human interest: Can spirits exist? How is the soul re­ lated to the body? How can we legitimately talk about God, if at all? Finally, Kant teaches that these are all questions bearing on our entitlements in claiming to know. Leibniz fashioned a way of talking about nature and super­ nature that I call the Double Government Methodology.

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`... a serious and ambitious book, and one which can be strongly recommended.'
British Journal for Philosophy of Science (September 1986)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

    Robert E. Butts

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Kant and the Double Government Methodology

  • Book Subtitle: Supersensibility and Method in Kant’s Philosophy of Science

  • Authors: Robert E. Butts

  • Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6393-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1760-3Published: 30 April 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2384-0Published: 31 May 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6393-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1566-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 340

  • Topics: History, general, Philosophy of Science, Modern Philosophy

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