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| Kantian Monism | |
| Συγγραφέας: Uriah	
  Kriegel Uriah Kriegel: Kantian Monism (pdf, 33 pages) Let	   “monism”	   be	   the	   view	   that	   there	   is	   only	   one	   basic	   object	   –	   the	   world.	   Monists face	   the	   question	   of	   whether	   there	   are	   also	   non-‐basic	   objects.	   This	   is	   in	   effect	   the question	   of	   whether	   the	   world	   decomposes	   into	   parts.	   Jonathan	   Schaffer	   maintains that	   it	   does,	   Terry	   Horgan	   and	   MatjaΕΎ	   PotrΔ	   that	   it	   does	   not.	   In	   this	   paper,	   I	   propose a	   compromise	   view,	   which	   I	   call	   ‘Kantian	   monism.’	   According	   to	   Kantian	   monism, the	   world	   decomposes	   into	   parts	   insofar	   as	   an	   ideal	   subject	   under	   ideal	   conditions would	   divide	   it	   into	   parts,	   but	   it	   does	   not	   decompose	   into	   parts	   in	   and	   of	   itself,	   that is,	   in	   an	   entirely	   mind-‐independent	   manner.	   After	   articulating	   Kantian	   monism more	   precisely	   (§1),	   I	   present	   a	   prima	   facie	   case	   for	   preferring	   it	   over	   more	   standard varieties	   of	   monism	   (§2). | |
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