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Transcendental Arguments and the Problem of Dogmatism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2008
Transcendental arguments have been described as undogmatic or non-dogmatic arguments. This paper examines this contention critically and addresses the question of what is required from an argument for which the characterization is valid.
Oskari Kuusela
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Transcendental Arguments and ‘Epistemological Naturalism’

Philosophical Studies, 1977
Abstract Stroud discusses Jay Rosenberg's Peirce‐inspired epistemological naturalism in relation to the requirements of a Kantian epistemological project that answers scepticism. Stroud explores the question of the possibility of conclusions of a special metaphysical status required for the success of such a project and sketches answers ...
Barry Stroud
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Transcendental Arguments

2016
AbstractThis article explores Immanuel Kant’s transcendental argument in philosophy. According to Kant, a transcendental argument begins with a compelling first premise about our thought, experience, knowledge, or practice, and then reasons to a conclusion that is a substantive and unobvious presupposition and necessary condition of the truth of this ...
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Transcendental Arguments II

Noûs, 1983
Kant was concerned to refute Cartesian skepticism by showing that the existence of objects located in space is a condition for the possibility of self-conscious experience. There is widespread disagreement among Kant scholars about how Kant intended this refutation to proceed and even about which parts of the Critique of Pure Reason embody the crux of ...
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The Nature of a Transcendental Argument

Journal of Critical Realism, 2004
Jamie Morgan
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Is Fichte’s Transcendental Thinking Transcendental Argument?

2014
The ambiguous term “transcendental” never has one and the same meaning for different philosophical epochs or different philosophers.1 It is not an exaggeration to say that the meaning shift of the term “transcendental” often reflects a development of philosophical thinking itself.2 It is worth acknowledging that in the modern period Kant and the post ...
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The Nature of Transcendental Arguments

International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2005
Abstract The paper aims to cast light on the kind of proof involved in central transcendental arguments. It is suggested that some of the difficulty associated with such arguments may result from the tendency to construe them simply as articulating relations between concepts or propositional contents.
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Transcendental Arguments, Transcendental Synthesis and Transcendental Idealism

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1987
Analyse de la notion d'argument transcendantal, comme specification des conditions necessaires d'une experience possible. L'A. montre que ce type d'argument en philosophie (chez Kant et chez d'autres auteurs) n'est pas lie a une forme de verificationnisme ni a une forme d'idealisme ...
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Transcendental Arguments and Realism

2003
Abstract It almost amounts to a platitude that realism and transcendental arguments do not go well together. To see why, let us briefly rehearse the characteristics of transcendental arguments. (i) Their premisses have to be justified independently of any experience about the external world, i.e. they must be justified introspectively or
Thomas Grundmann, Catrin Misselhorn
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Transcendental arguments

2018
Transcendental arguments seek to answer scepticism by showing that the things doubted by a sceptic are in fact preconditions for the scepticism to make sense. Hence the scepticism is either meaningless or false. A transcendental argument works by finding the preconditions of meaningful thought or judgment.
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