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“Kant’s Deduction and Apperception provides a rich and nuanced discussion of topics that lie at the heart of Kant’s project in the first Critique … . Schulting’s position is original and the discussion throughout is informed by an impressive command of both primary texts and secondary literature. … Anyone interested in the categories, the Transcendental Deduction, or the doctrine of apperception will benefit from reading this book.” (Thomas Land, Kantian Review, Vol. 23 (1), 2018)
- Prof. Corey Dyck, University of Western Ontario, Canada in Studi kantiani
Dennis Schulting has written a highly original book on that most scrutinized and controversial of philosophical arguments, Immanuel Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding. The book is tightly focused, tightly argued, and although it is often difficult it is also admirably clear. Schulting claims to find in the so-called first step of the Deduction a derivation of each of thetwelve categories from a single principle, the formal 'I think' or the pure original unity of apperception.
- Dr. Andrew Stephenson, University of Oxford UK in Studi kantiani
Dennis Schulting's monograph Kant's Deduction and Apperception: Explaining the Categories (KDA) is a very impressive achievement. Difficult issues in the interpretation of Kant's transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding are relentlessly pursued with the aim of establishing the bold thesis that the categories can be derived directly from the principle of apperception. This thesis, which calls to mind Klaus Reich's famous attempt to find such a derivation,1 is not very popular among Kant scholars, presumably because of the lack of clear indications in Kant's text that this is what the metaphysical and transcendental deductions are about, and also because Reich's book, despite its brilliance, failed to convince most readers that his proposed very complex derivation actually corresponded to Kant's intentions. In this respect, Schulting is more convincing. Most of the steps he presents in his reconstruction of Kant's deduction are possible to follow and not unreasonably far from the text. Since Kant's B-Deduction is what it is, any interpretation of it is (on pain of incomprehensibility) bound to have recourse to extrinsic material and occasionally take some distance from the text, but KDA does so without ever losing contact with the actual content of the B-Deduction. Such is the force of the book that it alters one's expectations of what the deduction should be taken to be about.
-Dr. Marcel Quarfood, Stockholm University, Sweden in Studi kantiani
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Book Title: Kant's Deduction and Apperception
Book Subtitle: Explaining the Categories
Authors: Dennis Schulting
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283634
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 314
Topics: History of Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Logic