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In contrast to mainstream interpretation, López-Fernández insists in the necessity of distinguishing between the I think (Ich denke) and the concept of the original synthetic unity of apperception (ursprünglich synthetische Einheit der Apperzeption). One can find in Kant at least two different fundamental senses of the I think, which the author denominates epistemical I think and factual– ontological I think. The conceptual precision of the latter allows the introduction of the concept of proto–theoretical consciousness (an original although not theoretical consciousness) in Kant and the determination of its peculiar nature and structure.

López–Fernández studies the various forms of a priori synthesis recognized by Kant, and deals explicitly with the problem of Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding. The investigation enters upon central themes of the Critique of Pure Reason, analyzing in detail the essential forms of judgmental consciousness of theoretical character, and dealing, at least partially, with the problem of their transition and justification. Specific differences among the diversity of the so called synthetic a priori judgments are recognized, as, for example, those between judgments of Kant's metaphysic of experience, judgments of mathematics and conjectural judgments of Kant's metaphysics of nature. The inquiry deals also with Kant's division of judgments in judgments of perception and judgments of experience, as well as with the problem of relating this division with his former one which divides them in analytical and synthetic judgments.

The author has studied Philosophy in the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, in the Ruprecht–Karl Universität Heidelberg and in the Johannes–Gutenberg Universität zu Mainz, in which he obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy. He is Professor of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and has written articles for various journals such as Diálogos, Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía, Manuscrito and Kant-Studien.

1998 - Softcover - 800 pages
ISBN: 0-9650071-0-3
Size (in inches): 6 x 9 x 1.5

Table Of Contents

Perception and proto–theoretical consciousness

Chapter:

1. Space as real entity and the space of appearances. Some considerations about the ontology of space and the nature of appearances in Kant
2. The transcendental structure of the subjective unity of consciousness: original unity and manifold a priori in space and time as forms of subjectivity
3. The sentence I think and the problem of determination of its theoretical–cognitive character
4. Existential non–egological inconsistencies and linguistic acts. Some systematical considerations concerning Cartesian I think and its judgmental nature
5. Kantian Constatitives and Cartesian Performatives: The I think as performative utterance
6. The Kantian concept of the factual–ontological I think

Second Part

7. The Kantian doctrine of the triple synthesis: Some problems
8. Judgments of perception and judgments of experience in Kant. The transition from consciousness of my particular states to consciousness in general
9. Judgments of experience and the judgmental structure of speculation and observation in Science
10. Judgments of experience and the construction of natural histories

Theoretical consciousness, its judgmental forms and the problem of their justification

A. A priori synthesis and transcendental legitimization: the problem of the Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding

11. Transcendental Deduction and Modality. Some considerations about the demonstrative program of the Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding
12. The thesis of the constitution of objects and the variants of Realism and Idealism. Some considerations about Transcendental Idealism the Critique of Pure Reason
13. The Kantian concept of combination and the thesis of objective world. Some critical considerations concerning the interpretation of pure concepts of understanding as forms of constitution of objects
14. The paradox of the original unity of consciousness in pure intuition and of the manifold a priori of Sensibility
15. A reconstruction proposal of the Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding within the conceptual bounds of Transcendental Idealism

16. The different levels of spatio–temporality in Kant and its noematic correlata
17. The ontology of rational and imaginary entities and the Kantian concept of negation
18. Analyticity and syntheticity: The nature of synthetic a priori judgments in Kant. Exposition of his doctrine and some general critical considerations
19. The judgments of 'mathematics' and the cognitive apprehension of appearances as singular and universal entities
20. The nature of the specific judgments of mathematics in Kant
21. The judgments of Philosophy and the Kantian concept of essence
22. The judgments of essence and the principle of sufficient reason

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