Pragmatism, Kant, and Transcendental Philosophy

Gabriele Gava, Robert Stern, Gabriele Gava, Robert Stern

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781317648314
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Philosophers working within the pragmatist tradition have pictured their relation to Kant and Kantianism in very diverse terms: some have presented their work as an appropriation and development of Kantian ideas, some have argued that pragmatism is an approach in complete opposition to Kant. This collection investigates the relationship between pragmatism, Kant, and current Kantian approaches to transcendental arguments in a detailed and original way. Chapters highlight pragmatist aspects of Kant's thought and trace the influence of Kant on the work of pragmatists and neo-pragmatists, engaging with the work of Peirce, James, Lewis, Sellars, Rorty, and Brandom, among others. They also consider to what extent contemporary approaches to transcendental arguments are compatible with a pragmatist standpoint. The book includes contributions from renowned authors working on Kant, pragmatism and contemporary Kantian approaches to philosophy, and provides an authoritative and original perspective on the relationship between pragmatism and Kantianism.

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Pragmatism, Kant, and Transcendental Philosophy

Edited by Gabriele Gava and Robert Stern

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Pragmatism, Kant, and transcendental philosophy / edited by Gabriele Gava

and Robert Stern. — 1 [edition].

pages cm. — (Routledge studies in nineteenth-century philosophy ; 8)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Kant, Immanuel, 1724–1804. 2. Pragmatism. 3. Peirce, Charles S.

(Charles Sanders), 1839–1914. 4. Transcendentalism. I. Gava, Gabriele,

1981– editor.

B2798.P73 2015

193—dc23

2015024419

ISBN: 978-1-138-79191-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-76244-9 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315762449

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Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction GABRIELE GAVA AND ROBERT STERN
• 1 German Idealism, Classical Pragmatism, and Kant’s Third Critique SEBASTIAN GARDNER
• 2 The Fallibilism of Kant’s Architectonic GABRIELE GAVA
• 3 A Kant-Inspired Vision of Pragmatism as Democratic Experimentalism DAVID MACARTHUR
• 4 Peirce, Kant, and What We Must Assume CHERYL MISAK
• 5 Peirce and the Final Opinion: Against Apel’s Transcendental Interpretation of the Categories DANIEL HERBERT
• 6 Forms of Reasoning as Conditions of Possibility: Peirce’s Transcendental Inquiry Concerning Inductive Knowledge JEAN-MARIE CHEVALIER
• 7 Kant and Peirce on Belief MARCUS WILLASCHEK
• 8 Round Kant or Through Him? On James’s Arguments for Freedom, and Their Relation to Kant’s ROBERT STERN
• 9 Consciousness in Kant and William James GRAHAM BIRD
• 10 Concepts of Objects as Prescribing Laws: A Kantian and Pragmatist Line of Thought JAMES R. O’SHEA
• 11 Subjectivity as Negativity and as a Limit: On the Metaphysics and Ethics of the Transcendental Self, Pragmatically Naturalized SAMI PIHLSTRÖM
• 12 A Plea for Transcendental Philosophy WOLFGANG KUHLMANN
• 13 Transcendental Arguments, Epistemically Constrained Truth, and Moral Discourse BORIS RÄHME
• Contributors
• Index

Acknowledgments

This volume was originally conceived as part of a project on the relationship between Kant, pragmatism and transcendental philosophy, which Gabriele Gava ran at Goethe University Frankfurt from May 2012 to April 2014 as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In the course of 2013, a collaboration between this project and a related project on “Pragmatism and Idealism_ Convergence or Contestation?” directed by Robert Stern in Sheffield was established. This cooperation led to the organization of a three days conference in Frankfurt in April 2014. The conference was entitled “Bridging Traditions: Idealism and Pragmatism,” and was sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Leverhulme Trust and the Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern of Goethe University. We are grateful to the Humboldt Foundation for supporting the research project which underpinned the collection and to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Leverhulme Trust and the Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern of Goethe University for making possible the organization of the event in Frankfurt, where early drafts of many contributions now contained in this volume were originally presented.

We would like to thank Marcus Willaschek, who acted as a host for Gabriele’s Humboldt project, as well as Marion Seiche and Kim Redgrave, who, as assistants respectively in Gabriele’s and Robert’s projects, have provided relevant help in the organization of the conference in Frankfurt. From Routledge, we wish to thank Margo Irvin and Andrew Weckenmann. To finish, we would also like to express our gratitude to all the contributors for their excellent...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction—GABRIELE GAVA AND ROBERT STERN
• 1 German Idealism, Classical Pragmatism, and Kant’s Third Critique—SEBASTIAN GARDNER
• 2 The Fallibilism of Kant’s Architectonic—GABRIELE GAVA
• 3 A Kant-Inspired Vision of Pragmatism as Democratic Experimentalism—DAVID MACARTHUR
• 4 Peirce, Kant, and What We Must Assume—CHERYL MISAK
• 5 Peirce and the Final Opinion: Against Apel’s Transcendental Interpretation of the Categories—DANIEL HERBERT
• 6 Forms of Reasoning as Conditions of Possibility: Peirce’s Transcendental Inquiry Concerning Inductive Knowledge—JEAN-MARIE CHEVALIER
• 7 Kant and Peirce on Belief—MARCUS WILLASCHEK
• 8 Round Kant or Through Him? On James’s Arguments for Freedom, and Their Relation to Kant’s—ROBERT STERN
• 9 Consciousness in Kant and William James—GRAHAM BIRD
• 10 Concepts of Objects as Prescribing Laws: A Kantian and Pragmatist Line of Thought—JAMES R. O’SHEA
• 11 Subjectivity as Negativity and as a Limit: On the Metaphysics and Ethics of the Transcendental Self, Pragmatically Naturalized—SAMI PIHLSTRÖM
• 12 A Plea for Transcendental Philosophy—WOLFGANG KUHLMANN
• 13 Transcendental Arguments, Epistemically Constrained Truth, and Moral Discourse—BORIS RÄHME
• Contributors
• Index