Kant and the Double Government Methodology
Supersensibility and Method in Kant’s Philosophy of Science
Authors: Butts, Robert E.
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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)
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-15
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Metaphysical Explanation in Leibniz: The Monads
Pages 16-43
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Leibniz on the Side of the Angels
Pages 44-62
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Kant, ESP, and the Inaugural Dissertation
Pages 63-102
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Soemmering and Euler: Space and the Soul
Pages 103-116
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Kant and the Double Government Methodology
- Book Subtitle
- Supersensibility and Method in Kant’s Philosophy of Science
- Authors
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- Robert E. Butts
- Series Title
- The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
- Series Volume
- 24
- Copyright
- 1986
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-009-6393-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-009-6393-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-90-277-1760-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-277-2384-0
- Series ISSN
- 1566-659X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 340
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