Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and his Realism

Synopsis

Lucy Allais presents a new account of Kant's transcendental idealism. She argues that Kant is committed to a genuine idealism about things as they appear to us, but that this is not a phenomenalist idealism. Instead, Kant's idealism depends instead on his notion of intuition and its role in cognition. Textual evidence and an interpretative pendulum. Navigating towards a moderate metaphysical interpretation of transcendental idealism -- Why Kant is not a phenomenalist -- Things in themselves without noumena -- Against deflationary interpretations -- Manifest reality. Essentially manifest qualities -- The secondary quality analogy -- Concepts and intuitions -- The argument for transcendental idealism in the transcendental aesthetic -- Kant's idealism and his realism. Relational appearances -- Intrinsic natures -- The transcendental deduction : relation to an object -- The possibility of metaphysics. Lucy Allais. Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-323) and index.