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The Idea of Transcendental Analysis: Kant, Marburg Neo-Kantianism, and Strawson (2019)

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In this paper, I shall discuss the assumption that Kant’s method in the Critique of Pure Reason is a transcendental analysis of experience. In order to do this, I will consider the conception of transcendental analysis that Marburg Neo-Kantianism powerfully introduced into Kant interpretation. I shall first develop a general model of transcendental analysis in the Marburg sense. I shall then ask whether this is a suitable model for the interpretation of the first Critique. Kant’s distinction between the analytic and synthetic method in the Prolegomena seems to contradict this, given that it is a distinction between two different mathematical methods of demonstration. However, I shall argue that any such reading is incompatible with the Critique, and that transcendental analysis is indeed a legitimate interpretative model for understanding Kant. I shall finally turn to Strawson’s conception of descriptive metaphysics, which has strong affinities to Kant and the Marburg school. Most importantly, Strawson helps us to understand three significant aims at which transcendental analysis is directed. Finally, comparing transcendental analysis to dominant conceptions of analysis in philosophy, I shall argue that it constitutes a variety of philosophical analysis sui generis.

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Authors & Contributors
Reidar Maliks
Callanan, John J.
Casini, Paolo
Allais, Lucy
Williams, Jessica J.
Gava, Gabriele
Concepts
Philosophy
Physics
Historiography
Political science
Psychology
Metaphysics
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
Medieval
Places
Europe
Spain
North America
Germany
Institutions
Marburg School of Philosophy
Philipps-Universität Marburg
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