2016/12/01 by Quassim Cassam · 1 citation
Psychology · Arts and Humanities · #Philosophy and Theoretical Science #Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy #Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications #Metaphysics #Epistemology #Realism #Philosophy #Critical realism (philosophy of perception) #Common sense
paper · doi:10.1111/ejop.12199
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Abstract The Kantian project of investigating the necessary structure of experience presupposes answers to three questions: what is the purpose of such an investigation, what is the source of necessary features of experience, and by what means is it possible to establish the necessary structure of experience? This paper is a critical examination of Strawson's answers to these questions in The Bounds of Sense and his later work. The realism that is implicit in The Bounds of Sense is much more explicit in Strawson's later work but relies on problematic assumptions about the relationship between epistemology and metaphysics.