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The Ideal and the Real

An Outline of Kant’s Theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Anthony Winterbourne

    1. Birmingham Polytechnic, England

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Part of the book series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series (NIPS, volume 37)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Prologue: Newton and Leibniz

    • Anthony Winterbourne
    Pages 1-34

  3. Kant’s Theory of Space and Time

    • Anthony Winterbourne
    Pages 35-96

  4. Acts, Intuitions and Constructions

    • Anthony Winterbourne
    Pages 97-118

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 119-139
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Many students coming to grips with Kant's philosophy are understandably daunted not only by the complexity and sheer difficulty of the man's writings, but almost equally by the amount of secondary literature available. A great deal of this seems to be - and not only on first reading - just about as difficult as the work it is meant to make more accessible. Any writer deliberately setting out to provide an authentically introductory text thus faces a double problem: how to provide an exegesis which would capture some of the spirit of the original, without gross and misleading over-simplification; and secondly, how to anchor the argument in the best and most imaginative secondary literature, yet avoid the whole project appearing so fragmented as to make the average book of chess openings seem positively austere. Until fairly recently, matters were made even more difficul t, in that commentaries on Kant were very often of a whole work, say, The Critique of Pure Reason, with the result that students would have to struggle through a very great deal of material indeed in order to feel any confidence at all that they had begun to understand the original writings. Recently, things have changed somewhat. There are now excellent commentaries on "Kant's Analytic", "Kant's Analogies" etc. . We have also seen, (at least as reflected in book titles), a resurgence of interest in what is perhaps the most controversial and far-reaching Kantian claim, viz.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Birmingham Polytechnic, England

    Anthony Winterbourne

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Ideal and the Real

  • Book Subtitle: An Outline of Kant’s Theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction

  • Authors: Anthony Winterbourne

  • Series Title: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1415-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7133-8Published: 13 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1415-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4530

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 139

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

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