Bounds of Transcendental Logic

The book addresses two main areas of Kant's theoretical philosophy:the doctrine of transcendental idealism and various centralaspects of the arguments from the Metaphysical and TranscendentalDeductions, as well as the relation between the deduction argumentand idealism. Among the topics covered are the nature ofobjective validity, the role and function of transcendental logic inrelation to general or formal logic, the possibility of contradictorythoughts, the meaning of the Leitfaden at A79 and the unity ofcognition, the two-steps-in-one-proof interpretation and categorialinstantiation, categorial illusion, Strawson's transcendental argument,the persistently perplexing question of the derivation of the categories,and the relation between apperception, objectivity, judgement, andidealism. With regard to idealism in particular, the focus is on themetaphysical two-aspect interpretation and its problems, on the meritsand demerits of the controversial phenomenalist reading of Kant'sidealism, and on the topic of subjectivism and epistemic humility. In all of the aforementioned topics, the book presents wholly novel interpretations compared to the standard or mainstream interpretations