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About Kant and Modern Philosophy

Kant's system is stated, analyzed, and duly reconstructed. On this basis, cogent analyses of induction, causation, and scientific method are put forth. Introduction Part 1. The Cogency of Kant’s Transcendental Arguments The ambiguity of the word “concept” “Synthetic” and “a priori” defined Kant’s conception of a priority and analyticity Kant’s conception of non-analyticity Kant on the role of paraperceptual ideation in analytical thought Transcendental≠Analyticity-based Kant’s crypto-empiricism Arithmetic not a priori Transcendentalism=Psychologism Kant’s rearguard empiricism Why Kant’s positions are nonetheless correct A priori knowledge a prerequisite for a posteriori knowledge Kant on Hume on Causation Part 2. The Analogue-Digital Distinction and the Strictly Logical Basis of Induction and Causal Explanation The concept of instantaneousness Hume’s position doubly erroneous The analogue-digital distinction The existence of necessary connections of the non-instantaneousness of all spatiotemporal existence Temporal order to be understood in terms of causation, not vice versa The spuriousness of Hume’s argument for spontaneous creation Summary of sections I-VI. Induction an operation on analogue-content Perceptual content not digitizable The spuriousness of Hume’s argument for the legitimacy of counterpredictive inductions The grounds of inductive inference vs. linguistic representations of such grounds Hume’s associationism false with respect to our theories, true only with respect to Hume’s theories about our theories Some Consequences of our System The non-probativeness of some of the standard arguments for skepticism The Kantian roots of this system These points in relation to the nature of probability Whitehead and Russell on spatiotemporal order The crypto-conversativism of epistemic relativism Chomsky’s epistemic conservativism Ontogenetic a posteriori ≠ phylogenetic a priori Chomsky’s rationalism actually an extreme form of empiricism The unconscious