In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Tom Rockmore
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 1405125713
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In Kant’s Wake evaluates the four main trends in philosophy in the twentieth century — Marxism, Anglo-American analytic, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy — and argues that all four evolved in reaction to Kant’s fascinating and demanding philosophy.
- Gives a sense of the main thinkers and problems, and the nature of their debates;
- Provides an intriguing assessment of the accomplishments of twentieth-century philosophy.
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defense of knowledge requires a solution which re-establishes causality in the face of Hume’s attack on this concept. In the Preface to the Prolegomena, Kant outlines Hume’s importance for metaphysics in showing that reason cannot think necessary connections a priori. In order to solve the general difficulty, he claims to generalize Hume’s problem in noticing that the connection of cause and effect is merely one among a series of a priori connections of which metaphysics consists.28 Kant’s
knowledge based on representing the objects that we know in claiming that we construct them as a condition of knowing them. If we know the way things must be a priori, then we will also be able to know how they must in fact be a posteriori. The answer is more complicated for the specific problem of how we are IKWC02 33 5/10/05, 10:45 AM 34 Kant and the Post-Kantian Debate able successfully to formulate scientific laws. Since Kant thinks that all knowledge worthy of the name, including
Rockmore. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2570-3 (hardcover) ISBN-10: 1-4051-2570-5 (hardcover) ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2571-0 (pbk.) ISBN-10: 1-4051-2571-3 (pbk.) 1. Philosophy, Modern—20th century. 2. Kant, Immanuel, 1724 –1804. I. Title. B804.R625 2006 190.9′04 —dc22 2005024958 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 10/13pt Galliard by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed and bound in India by Replika Press Pvt.
from naturalizing epistemology in analytic thinkers. By “empiricism” he means that whatever claims philosophy raises about the world must be traced back to experience, and that general conclusions must be IKWC04 93 5/10/05, 10:44 AM 94 Pragmatism as Epistemology brought into line with experience. In accordance with Dewey’s experimental approach to philosophy, naturalism is intended to reveal the inconsistency of old accounts with the nature of things. Dewey’s whole effort is intended to
away from transcendental idealism as part of the turn away from idealism, and to be concerned with the problem of reference that is central to Anglo-American analytic philosophy’s attempts to make good on Kant’s concern with a representationalist approach to knowledge. It has been argued that analytic philosophy emerged in reaction against Kant: for instance, through the rejection of his conception of the a IKWC07 163 5/10/05, 10:43 AM 164 Kant and Twentieth-Century Philosophy priori.7 It
