The significance of Kant's mere thoughts

TY - JOUR

T1 - The significance of Kant's mere thoughts

AU - Leech, Jessica

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/8/14

Y1 - 2021/8/14

N2 - Kant distinguishes cognition and thought. Mere thoughts do not conform to the conditions that Kant places on cognition and hence do not represent objects of experience. They are, nevertheless, intelligible, and play a vital role in our mental and moral lives. I offer the beginnings of an account of mere thought using Kant’s resources. I consider four key cases of intelligible representations that lack objective validity: unschematized categories; transcendental ideas; philosophical concepts; thoughts that violate principles of the understanding.

AB - Kant distinguishes cognition and thought. Mere thoughts do not conform to the conditions that Kant places on cognition and hence do not represent objects of experience. They are, nevertheless, intelligible, and play a vital role in our mental and moral lives. I offer the beginnings of an account of mere thought using Kant’s resources. I consider four key cases of intelligible representations that lack objective validity: unschematized categories; transcendental ideas; philosophical concepts; thoughts that violate principles of the understanding.

KW - Cognition

KW - Kant

KW - objective validity

KW - thought

KW - transcendental ideas

KW - unschematized categories

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112499299&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/0020174X.2021.1938903

DO - 10.1080/0020174X.2021.1938903

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85112499299

SN - 0020-174X

JO - Inquiry

JF - Inquiry

ER -