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Chapter 3 - Metaphysical Deductions

from Part II - The Method of Transcendental Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2023

Gabriele Gava
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Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
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In this chapter, I reconstruct the metaphysical deductions that, in my account, Kant presents in the Aesthetic, Analytic and Dialectic, respectively. I read metaphysical deductions as accomplishing the first task of transcendental philosophy as it is established in the Critique of Pure Reason, namely the task of cataloguing pure root concepts (Stammbegriffe) for the cognition of objects and to track their origin. I argue that the metaphysical deductions do not simply assume a distinction between different faculties. Rather, they contribute to establishing this distinction by identifying the origin of the root concepts they clarify and catalogue. Moreover, I show that Kant does not follow a univocal model in the different deductions. Rather, his approach is pluralistic.

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  • Metaphysical Deductions
  • Gabriele Gava, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
  • Book: Kant's <I>Critique of Pure Reason</I> and the Method of Metaphysics
  • Online publication: 11 May 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009172127.006
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  • Gabriele Gava, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
  • Book: Kant's <I>Critique of Pure Reason</I> and the Method of Metaphysics
  • Online publication: 11 May 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009172127.006
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  • Metaphysical Deductions
  • Gabriele Gava, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
  • Book: Kant's <I>Critique of Pure Reason</I> and the Method of Metaphysics
  • Online publication: 11 May 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009172127.006
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