Grounds of pragmatic realism : : Hegel's internal critique and reconstruction of Kant's critical philosophy / / by Kenneth R. Westphal.

• Superior document: Critical Studies in German Idealism, Volume 20
• VerfasserIn: Westphal, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Critical studies in German idealism ; Volume 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (546 pages).
• Notes: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2018).

Grounds of Pragmatic Realism argues that Hegel’s philosophy from the 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit through his last Berlin lectures on philosophical psychology demonstates how Kant’s critique of rational judgment across his Critical corpus can be disentangled from Kant’s failed Transcendental Idealism and developed into a cogent, pragmatic realism, within which the social and historical aspects of rational inquiry and justification are shown to justify realism about the objects of empirical knowledge. Hegel’s demonstration reveals how deeply contemporary epistemology remains beholden to pre-Critical options, none of which are adequate to the natural sciences, nor to commonsense. Hegel recognised and justified (independently) Kant’s semantics of singular cognitive reference to particulars within space and time. Hegel’s analysis of mutual recognition develops Kant’s insights into the self-critical and inter-subjective aspects of rational judgment and justification, to show that none of us can be properly rational judges, nor can we properly justify our judgments rationally, without constructive self-criticism and without acknowledging and benefitting from constructive critical assessment by others.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Introduction / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Henry Harris and the Spirit of Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Idealism: Transcendental or Absolute? / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Hegel’s Early Critique of Kant’s Critical Foundations of Physics / Kenneth R. Westphal -- The Transcendental, Formal and Material Conditions of the ‘I Think’ / Kenneth R. Westphal -- The Fate of ‘the’ Intuitive Intellect in Hegel’s Philosophy / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Hegel’s Post-Kantian Epistemological Reorientation / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Hegel’s Manifold Response to Scepticism in the 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Hegel’s Pragmatic Critique and Reconstruction of Kant’s System of Principles I: The 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Hegel’s Solution to the Pyrrhonian Dilemma of the Criterion / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Hegel’s Transcendental Proof of Mental Content Externalism / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Mutual Recognition and Rational Justification in Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Mutual Recognition and Rational Justification in Substantive Domains / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Hegel’s Critique of Intuitionism: Encyclopaedia §§61–78 / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Analytic Philosophy and the Long Tail of Scientia: Hegel and the Historicity of Philosophy / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Hegel’s Pragmatic Critique and Reconstruction of Kant’s System of Principles II: the Science of Logic and Encyclopaedia / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Science and the Philosophers / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: Its Aims, Scope and Significance / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Cognitive Psychology, Intelligence and the Realisation of the Concept in Hegel’s Encyclopaedic Epistemology / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Robust Pragmatic Realism in Hegel’s Critical Epistemology: Synthetic Necessary Truths / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Autonomy, Freedom and Embodiment: Hegel’s Critique of Contemporary Biologism / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Appendix / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Analytical Contents / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Bibliography / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Index of Names / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Index of Subjects / Kenneth R. Westphal.