Kant and Modern Philosophy Audiobook

Kant's system is stated, analyzed, and duly reconstructed. On this basis, cogent analyses of induction, causation, and scientific method are put forth.

Introduction

Part 1. The Cogency of Kant’s Transcendental Arguments

The ambiguity of the word “concept”

“Synthetic” and “a priori” defined

Kant’s conception of a priority and analyticity

Kant’s conception of non-analyticity

Kant on the role of paraperceptual ideation in analytical thought

Transcendental≠Analyticity-based

Kant’s crypto-empiricism

Arithmetic not a priori

Transcendentalism=Psychologism

Kant’s rearguard empiricism

Why Kant’s positions are nonetheless correct

A priori knowledge a prerequisite for a posteriori knowledge

Kant on Hume on Causation

Part 2. The Analogue-Digital Distinction and the Strictly Logical Basis of Induction and Causal

Explanation

The concept of instantaneousness

Hume’s position doubly erroneous

The analogue-digital distinction

The existence of necessary connections of the non-instantaneousness of all spatiotemporal

existence

Temporal order to be understood in terms of causation, not vice versa

The spuriousness of Hume’s argument for spontaneous creation

Summary of sections I-VI.

Induction an operation on analogue-content

Perceptual content not digitizable

The spuriousness of Hume’s argument for the legitimacy of counterpredictive inductions

The grounds of inductive inference vs. linguistic representations of such grounds

Hume’s associationism false with respect to our theories, true only with respect to Hume’s

theories about our theories

Some Consequences of our System

The non-probativeness of some of the standard arguments for skepticism

The Kantian roots of this system

These points in relation to the nature of probability

Whitehead and Russell on spatiotemporal order

The crypto-conversativism of epistemic relativism

Chomsky’s epistemic conservativism

Ontogenetic a posteriori ≠ phylogenetic a priori

Chomsky’s rationalism actually an extreme form of empiricism

The unconscious

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