The Schematism and Empirical Concepts

Pippin, Robert B.

doi:10.1515/kant.1976.67.1-4.156

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“…63. although some commentators (Walsh 1957(Walsh /1958Chipman 1972;and Pippin 1976) have argued that a schema is needed to solve the problem of homogeneity only in the transcendental case in which we apply the categories to intuition, given that concepts, in general, are mediate, universal representations and intuitions, in general, are immediate, singular representations, the problem of homogeneity will arise here too. as Kant makes this point in the third Critique, the understanding with its concepts and sensibility with its intuitions are "two heterogeneous elements"; hence, a schema will be needed to mediate between the two in any case in which we apply a concept to an intuition (KU 5:401).…”

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Images and Kant’s Theory of Perception

Matherne¹

2015

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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my aim in this paper is to offer a systematic analysis of a feature of Kant's theory of perception that tends to be overlooked, viz., his account of how the imagination forms images in perception. although Kant emphasizes the centrality of this feature of perception, indeed, calling it a 'necessary ingredient' of perception, commentators have instead focused primarily on his account of sensibility and intuitions on the one hand, and understanding and concepts on the other. however, I show that careful attention to what he says about the nature of images, their connection to the imagination, and their role in perception in his metaphysics Lectures, as well as in the Deduction and Schematism chapters of the first Critique reveals that Kant is working with a richer, more nuanced framework for perception than is often attributed to him. I contend that it is only once we have a revised framework for Kant's theory of perception in place that we will be able to make further headway in debates, e.g., about whether or not he is a conceptualist about perception. 1. references to Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason are to the section number and a and B pagination of the first and second editions (A/B). all other references are to the section number, volume, and page of Kants gesammelte Schriften.

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Images and Kant’s Theory of Perception

Matherne¹

2015

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“…I agree with La Rocca (1989: 135) that the act Kant here attributes to the imagination consists in the schematization of the very rule that the concept, for its part, articulates in an intellectual manner. Pippin (1976) takes Kant's alleged identification of empirical concepts and schemata to pose a problem (165-166), arguing that it precludes an account of how exactly empirical concepts are being schematized (171). As I see it, this problem disappears if we take Kant to hold that empirical concepts, like all concepts, are from the outset geared toward the schematic representation of between the concept of a dog and the intuited singular dog.…”

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Categories versus Schemata: Kant’s Two-Aspect Theory of Pure Concepts and his Critique of Wolffian Metaphysics

Boer¹

2016

Journal of the History of Philosophy

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This article contends that Kant's account of the schemata of pure concepts is pivotal to his critique of Wolffian metaphysics and, hence, to the Critique of Pure Reason as a whole. Opposing the common view that categories are prior to schemata, I argue that Kant considers a priori schematization to occur wherever the human mind unifies a given manifold, except in the purported a priori cognition to which Wolffian metaphysics aspired. I take Kant to hold, accordingly, that transcendental schemata and categories represent different guises of the a priori rules that allow the mind to unify a manifold. Since transcendental schemata present these rules as ways of unifying successive representations, they can be said to constitute the sensible condition of any a priori cognition of objects. As Kant argues, the categories that underly Wolffian metaphysics abstract from this condition, which entails that the a priori rules at stake do not extend to the soul, the world as such and God, but can only be used with regard to possible objects of experience.

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“…For a lucid introduction to the notion of schematism, see Matherne (). For another standard account see Pippin ().…”

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Narrating an unnarratable present

Freed

2019

Orbis Litterarum

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Robert Musil characterizes the moment of modernity that is the historical setting of his novel The Man without Qualities with the expression "Seinesgleichen geschieht," which he glosses by explaining that the present lacks determinacy and as a result remains unsurveyable (unübersichtlich). This characterization raises the question of how the novel is able to give rise to an understanding of the historical moment that is one object of its narration. Literature attempting to represent the un-representable is the fundamental form of the problematic called Romanticism, which offers conceptual resources for understanding how Musil goes about narrating an unnarratable present. One of the pivots on which early German Romanticism turns away from transcendental philosophy involves assimilating the Kantian notion of "schematism" to the particular functioning of language Novalis and Schlegel call "Poesie." Schematism is also found working in the narrative technique of Musil's novel. In the sense that schematism names the inscription of relations by which, in the absence of any representable object, the world becomes the world-for-us and therefore intelligible, this inscription-this schematism-is the "writing" of modernity. K E Y W O R D S Man Without Qualities, modernism, narrative technique, Robert Musil, romanticism, schematism | 279 FREED

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