TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM, THE DIALECTICAL DIMENSION + IN KANT

Left wing interpreters of Kant's transcendental idealism argue that the doctrine must be excised in order to disclose the viable philosophical content of the first Critique. For right wing interpreters, this leaves a Hamlet without the prince. I chart and defend a middle path. Transcendental idealism, while essential to Kant's position, renders that position philosophically indefensible. Constant misinterpretation of the doctrine results from a failure to appreciate the inter‐theoretic (i.e. dialectical) relations between Kant's conceptualisation of sense‐involving experience and the output of (what I call)‘Cartesian theory of error'. Copyright © 1991, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved