Kant’s Philosophy and the Momentum of Modernity: The Metaphysics of Fact Determination

Kant’s Philosophy and the Momentum of Modernity: The Metaphysics of Fact Determination
ISBN-10
1498571409
ISBN-13
9781498571401
Category
Philosophy
Pages
424
Language
English
Published
2019-02-08
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Robert J. Roecklein

Description

This book is a careful study of both Immanuel Kant’s work and the context of that work in Early Modern Philosophy. Roecklein's chief concern is the philosophy of perception, which is manifest in Kant’s doctrines of the transcendental aesthetic and the concept of phenomena.

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