PHIL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Noumenon, Anti-Realism, Transcendental Idealism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Philosophy at St Joseph's College
• Course: PHIL102
• Professor: Nathan Kowalsky

Document Summary

Kant: german and from the time of the french revolution. Science is objective and successful: science vs empiricism. It is impossible to establish necessary connection through empiricism: empiricism is sceptical but science is not; science always works, conclusion - neither empiricism nor rationalism work as well as science. Science is ignorant of the conditions of its own possibility. Science requires certain assumptions: the critique of correspondence, how do we have ideas in our minds that correspond to reality, beyond rationalism and empiricism, all knowledge begins with experience (cid:894)(cid:862)te(cid:373)po(cid:396)al p(cid:396)io(cid:396)it(cid:455)(cid:863)(cid:895) Something you know that is implicit in the concept: e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: (cid:373)athe(cid:373)ati(cid:272)al t(cid:396)uths, (cid:862)le(cid:373)o(cid:374)s a(cid:396)e f(cid:396)uits,(cid:863) (cid:862)all (cid:271)a(cid:272)helo(cid:396)s a(cid:396)e u(cid:374)(cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:396)ied (cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:863) Synthetic: add something to (not contained in) the concept, e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: (cid:862)all (cid:271)odies ha(cid:448)e (cid:449)eight(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:374)ot i(cid:374)he(cid:396)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374) the defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) of a body) Copernicus switched it around into heliocentrism: kant is switching around the preexisting paradigm of knowledge conforming to reality to saying that reality conforms to knowledge.