Document Type

Article

Publication Title

The Philosophical Review

Publication Date

10-1972

Keywords

Kant, Quine, objectivity, sense experience, Critique of Pure Reason

Abstract

In this paper I provide an account of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason approach to how humans automatically shape the interpretation of their sense experiences in order to create a picture of themselves enduring in and interacting with an objective world. I contrast Kant's view with those of W.V. O.Quine, who also talks about how we create theories about what we are sensing. I claim that although Quine and Kant are both talking about making sense of our "experiences", they actually have different conceptions of "experience". The primary point of the paper is to elucidate Kant's views on these matters.

Comments

This is a preprint of an article first published in vol. 81, no. 4 of The Philosophical Review (1972).

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