Event
Mario Caimi on Two problems of the Critique of Pure Reason: Deduction and Schematism
Doctoral school course at Ghent University (website)
Grote vergaderzaal (3rd floor), Blandijnberg 2, Ghent
Prof Dr Mario Caimi (Argentina, 1947) is since 1985 professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has obtained a PhD degree at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany) with a book on Kant’s concept of sensation. He has been invited professor at many European and Latin American universities, among them at Paris I (Sorbonne), at Eichstätt, Santiago de Compostela, Rio Grande do Sul and others. In 2010 he received the Kant Prize from the International Kant Society. He is member of the editorial staff of the reviews Kant-Studien (Berlin), Studi Kantiani (Pisa), Studia Kantiana (Rio de Janeiro) and others. He has published many papers and books on the philosophy of Kant and has translated most of Kant’s main theoretical works, such as Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Prolegomena, Fortschritte der Metaphysik, Streitschrift gegen Eberhard, Anthropologie and many others. His book on the Transcendental Deduction of 1787: Leçons sur Kant will presently be published in English.
- Foundation of scientific knowledge
- Critique of dogmatic metaphysics
- Writing of a foundational text
Readings:
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, A XI note
- Cassirer, Ernst – Kants Leben und Lehre. Berlin, 1918. Selected passages.
- Cohen, Hermann – Kants Theorie der Erfahrung. Berlin, 1918. Selected passages.
- The discovering of sensibility
- The ‘Transcendental doctrine of Elements’
- The separation of sensibility and understanding
- Synthesis and its consequences: Transcendental Deduction and Schematism
Readings:
- Kant: Von dem ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden im Raume (1768), AA II, 376 ss
- Kant: Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view, paragraphs 7-11, AA VII, 140-146
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, A 22, B 36; A 62, B 87; A 305, B 362. (Method of isolation)
- Kant: De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis, paragraph 6 AA II 394 (usus realis intellectus)
- The task of the Deduction: The synthesis of a priori concepts with objects
- The argumentative structure of the Deduction
- The Principle of Apperception
- Imagination in the Transcendental Deduction
Readings:
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, 1787, paragraphs 13, 15-20 und 22-23
- The function of Schematism. Difference between Schematism and Deduction
- The object which must be subsumed under the categories
- Categories and time
- Some basic concepts: homogeneity, subsumtion, image, imagination
Readings:
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, B 169 – B 179.
- Schemes of empirical concepts
- Semantics as a function of the schemata of empirical concepts
Readings:
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, B 180 – B 181
- Schemes of quantity and of quality
- Schemes of relation: substance, causality, community
- Schemes of modality: possibility, existence, necessity
Readings:
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, B 181 – B 187
- Expositions of the participants
Optional Readings:
- Philonenko, Alexis: “Lecture du schématisme transcendantal” in: Joachim Kopper and Wolfgang Marx (editors): Zweihundert Jahre Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Hildesheim, 1981, 291-312
- Detel, Wolfgang: “Zur Funktion des Schematismuskapitels in Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft” in: Kant-Studien 69, 1978, pp.17-45
- Düsing, Klaus: “Schema und Einbildungskraft in Kants ‘Kritik der reinen Vernunft'” in: Lothar Kreimendahl (editor): Aufklärung und Skepsis. Studien zur Philosophie und Geistesgeschichte des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Köln, 1995, pp. 47-71
- Curtius, Ernst Robert: “Das Schematismuskapitel in der Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Philologische Untersuchung” in: Kant-Studien 1914, pp.338-366
- Pippin, Robert B.: “The Schematism and Empirical Concepts”, in Kant-Studien 67, 1976, pp.156-171
- Rollmann, Veit-Justus und Hahmann, Andree: “Weltstoff und absolute Beharrlichkeit: Die Erste Analogie der Erfahrung und der Entwurf Übergang 1-14 des Opus postumum” in: Kant-Studien 102, 2011, pp.168-190
- Hahmann, André: Kritische Metaphysik der Substanz. Kant im Widerspruch zu Leibniz. Berlin, New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2009
- Giuseppe Motta: Die Postulate des empirischen Denkens überhaupt. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2012.
Reading Material
For the copyrighted texts, please contact emiliano.acosta@ugent.be
Programme schedule
30 September 2013 | 9:00-11:0011:00-12:00 | Chapter 1 & 2, and table of contentsParticipants explain their subject of research in relation to the Kantian philosophy |
1 October 2013 | 9:00-12:00 | Chapter 3 |
2 October 2013 | 9:00-12:00 | Chapter 4 & 5 |
3 October 2013 | 9:00-12:00 | Chapter 6 (1-2) |
4 October 2013 | 9:00-12:00 | Chapter 6 (3) and discussion of the main difficulties of the doctrin of Schematism |