The case of Kant's Critique of Judgment offers a powerful example of the radical disruption of the metaphysical text, enacted by Bataille's major сoncepts. The analysis of the metaphor of economy in Kant, Bataille and Derrida suggests the crucial importance of Bataille's general economy—as the economy of loss—for deconstructing the Kantian conception of genius and the whole scheme of taste—as a...

the eighteenth century enlightenment is one of the most important foundations of the modern culture and thecontemporary western philosophy can be regarded as a dialogue between the enlightenment and its critics. although the roots of the enlightenment can be traced to the late middle ages and even before, but it is in kant’s “what is enlightenment?” (and implicitly in his critical trilogy and p...

Many students take away a familiar and rather cartoonish image from studying Kant in college – that of an austere moralist who would have it that a righteous human life consists exclusively in an obligation to a supreme moral law (something which seems to involve arcane ‘universalizability tests’ for ‘maxims’ of action), that the claims of such obedience are unconditional, or trump, override, a...

In this chapter we aim to establish a set of requirements for the design and implementation of models for sustaining dialogue in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, which incorporate mechanisms for negotiating cooperative teaching and learning goals. Our discussion is centred around a first prototype computational model called "KANT"`(Kritical Argument Negotiated Tutoring system), which incorporates ...

ionism. We must review this diagnosis of Kant because the nature of McDowell’s direct realism emerges from his providing a very different reading of Kant on this issue. To understand Sellars’ reading of Kant as espousing a form of the given we must again examine the relationship between intuition and the judgment. As we know, intuitive episodes can be entertained without one making judgments. H...

One of the arguments for which Kant is best known (or most notorious) is the so-called “moral proof” of the existence of God, freedom, and the immortal soul. Versions of the proof can be found in each of the Critiques, in various lectures, and in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. “Proof” has to be taken loosely here, since the attitude licensed by moral considerations, for Kant, is...

Most German philosophers in the early nineteenth century were devoted, to the idealistic « completion » of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy. A few independent philosophers, however , were preoccupied with the elaboration of a non-idealistic, and less speculative, conclusion to Kant's thought. Among the earliest opponents of the speculativ~ idealists was Jakob Frie-d~ich Fries (1773-1843), a ...

Although Kant envisaged a prominent role for logic in the argumentative structure of his Critique of pure reason [12], logicians and philosophers have generally judged Kant’s logic negatively. What Kant called ‘general’ or ‘formal’ logic has been dismissed as a fairly arbitrary subsystem of first order logic, and what he called ‘transcendental logic’ is considered to be not a logic at all: no s...

In order to understand the reception of Newton in biology in the eighteenth century we must first decide what we mean by biology and characterize those aspects of Newton’s work that can plausibly be thought to have had some impact on the life sciences in the eighteenth century. When Immanuel Kant at the end of the eighteenth century despaired of a ‘Newton’ of the organic world, ‘who could make ...