the paper deals with kant's conception of moral judgment. i start by criticizing a dominant interpretation of kant's practical rationality in its assertion that choosing, i.e. exercising judgment consists in adopting a maxim; and adopting a maxim is equivalent to acting on a principle, giving oneself the moral law (korsgaard). according to this view, the logical inescapability of choo...

Knowledge-based interlingual machine translation systems produce semantically accurate translations, but typically require massive knowledge acquisition. Ongoing research and development at the Center for Machine Translation has focussed on reducing this requirement to produce large-scale practical applications of knowledge-based MT. This paper describes KANT, the first system to combine princi...

In this paper I’m going to argue that both, Spinoza and Kant, construct the argument “for the impossibility of self-destruction” and examine how the concept of suicide relates to the concept of humanity in both philosophers. I will argue that Kant’s and Spinoza’s argument for the impossibility of self-destruction follows from the “external cause” premise and not from “the same subject” premise....

ion upon those sensible forms.1 This doctrine, in which the human mind becomes formally identical with the object of cognition, was accused of being unintelligible mystification by the ‘New Philosophy’ of the seventeenth century. Leibniz, for example, in the preface to his New Essays, writes scornfully of the Scholastics’ ‘ “intentional species” which travel from objects to us and find their wa...

Since the onset of logical positivism, the general wisdom of the philosophy of science has it that the kantian philosophy of (space and) time has been superseded by the theory of relativity, in the same sense in which the latter has replaced Newton’s theory of absolute space and time. On the wake of Cassirer and Gödel, in this paper I raise doubts on this commonplace. I first suggest some condi...

for kant, it is impossible for theoretical reason to prove human autonomy and freedom. he, therefore, tries to prove it as an axiom by practical reason or ethics. kant believes freedom as the quality of human will. he has known free will to be the same as autonomous will; that is, human will would be considered free in such a case that it causes some effects while being itself not caused by the...

in his critique of purge reason, kant insists that the human understanding is only able to know phenomena. however, in critique of practical reason, he proves the objective reality of god, freedom and immortality of soul. at first, the result of the two critiques seems to be at odds with each other, with kant himself calling the problem, the dilemma of philosophy of critiquing. by putting forwa...

According to Kant, the understanding generates concepts in virtue of its own capacity to judge (A69/B94), but knowledge requires the application of concepts to what is given by the sensible faculty. His Transcendental Deduction is intended to show that the Categories, concepts that express the unity required for objective judgment, apply to all objects given in sensible intuition. In the Critiq...

In an interlingual knowledge-based machine translation system, ambiguity arises when the source language analyzer produces more than one interlingua expression for a source sentence. This can have a negative impact on translation quality, since a target sentence may be produced from an unintended meaning. In this paper we describe the methods used in the KANT machine translation system to reduc...