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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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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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Gibbard’s Transcendental Arguments
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2010In Thinking How to Live, Allan Gibbard attempts to derive commitments binding on all agents from the logic of planning. In particular, he argues that every agent is committed to the claim that what one ought to do supervenes on prosaic fact. In doing so, he thinks he vindicates much of what moral realists say while giving a more adequate expressivist ...
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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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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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Is Fichte’s Transcendental Thinking Transcendental Argument?
2014The 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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PUTNAM'S TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1987Discussion de l'argument anti-sceptique et anti-idealiste de Putnam dans " Reason, Truth and History " concernant les cerveaux dans une cuve. L'A. concentre sa discussion sur le statut de la phrase " nous ne sommes pas des cerveaux dans une cuve ", et sur l'argument de Putnam suivant lequel " nous sommes des cerveaux dans une cuve " est necessairement ...
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2017
As generally understood, transcendental arguments are deductive arguments that aim to establish a certain claim A by arguing that A is a necessary condition for another claim B. Customarily, they are used to refute various forms of skepticism. Accordingly, B is usually a claim that is noncontroversial and would plausibly be accepted by a skeptic: for ...
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As generally understood, transcendental arguments are deductive arguments that aim to establish a certain claim A by arguing that A is a necessary condition for another claim B. Customarily, they are used to refute various forms of skepticism. Accordingly, B is usually a claim that is noncontroversial and would plausibly be accepted by a skeptic: for ...
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Transcendental Arguments: Objections
2000Abstract While the ‘official’ history of transcendental arguments goes back to Kant (though a case can be made for putting much earlier anti sceptical strategies in this form), there was little critical discussion of them as such, independently of general considerations of Kant’s epistemology and metaphysics as a whole, until Strawson ...
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Ramsey’s Transcendental Argument
2005Abstract One of the papers of Ramsey’s Nachlass which his widow, Lettice, sold to the Hillman library at Pittsburgh is a set of notes entitled ‘ The Infinite’. Embedded in these notes is the following curious argument for the Axiom of Infinity:We can say that the idea of infinity proves its existence. ( Wittgenstein’s extra prop). But
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Transcendental arguments and ‘epistemological naturalism’
Philosophical Studies, 1977Abstract 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 ...
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Analytic Transcendental Arguments
1979Someone who thinks that his own inner states are the basis for all his other knowledge and beliefs may wonder how anything can be securely built on this foundation. He need not actually doubt that his own edifice is securely founded, though he may pretend to have doubts about this in order to consider how they could be resolved if they did occur.
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