Kant’s Transcendental Idealism According to Henry E. Allison Reading

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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university of tehran

Abstract

Our effort in this paper is to present some important and traditional criticism about Kant’s “Transcendental Idealism” and their Evolution to presentation of ‘Separability Thesis’ - a thesis that propose the separation between “Transcendental Idealism” and “Transcendental Theory of Experience". Then we will present Henry Allison reading of transcendental idealism according to his book of “Kant’s Transcendental Idealism”. In this interpretation, he presents an epistemological (or meta-epistemological) reading of Kant’s Transcendental Theory and attributes an ontological reading to Kant’s critics. By this, he both providing a solution to this trend of criticism and making the separability thesis impossible by introducing fundamental connection between transcendental idealism and transcendental theory of experience. At the end of this paper, after presenting some sides of his reading and its approach for answering to traditional criticism, we will express some question about possibility of this interpretation of questionable texts of Kant and power of this reading against same criticisms.

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