{"product_id":"kants-transcendental-deduction-of-the-categories-9781498508483","title":"Kants Transcendental Deduction of the Categories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Unity, Representation, and Apperception is a distinctively new reading of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in the Critique of Pure Reason. Lawrence J. Kaye has discovered a number of previously overlooked arguments and explanations, one of the most significant being an argument that demonstrates that the use of concepts requires the necessary unity of consciousness. He also provides a detailed investigation of Kant's account of representation in the first edition of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories and shows how it can be understood as a unique type of functional role view. This view of representation leads to a new understanding of Kant's blend of realism and idealism.Kant's notion of transcendental apperception (a priori self-awareness) is also carefully explained. Kaye shows that there is an extremely tight inter-relation between the unity of consciousness, representation, and apperception that constitute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Preliminaries 2. The Fundamental Framework: Unity, Representation and Apperception 3. The Initial Deduction and Kant’s Methodology  4. Representational Realism and Transcendental Idealism 5. The Three Syntheses  6. The Connected Deduction  7. The Revised Deduction: First Part  8. The Revised Deduction: Second Part   9. Other Interpretations 10. Theses and Arguments","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040636272983,"sku":"9781498508483","price":88.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498508483.jpg?v=1750947346","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kants-transcendental-deduction-of-the-categories-9781498508483","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}