Kant and Concepts: Should We Regard Kant as a Conceptualist? Cover Image

Kant és a fogalmak, avagy helyes-e Kantra konceptualistaként tekinteni?
Kant and Concepts: Should We Regard Kant as a Conceptualist?

Author(s): Katalin Turai
Subject(s): Early Modern Philosophy
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: Kant; perception; mental content; conceptualism; intellectualism;

Summary/Abstract: According to Kant, rational abilities have a role to play in human perception even if intuitions are not brought under empirical concepts. Although his views might sound like a version of conceptualism, I argue here that the involvement of the understanding in synthesizing the formal representations of space and time do not turn Kant into a conceptualist in the sense of the term applied in the philosophy of mind. At the same time Kant’s model of the mind could be useful for contemporary debates on perception inasmuch as focus is shifted on the cooperation of receptive/sensible vs. constructive/intellectual capacities in perceptual experience.

  • Issue Year: LXXXIII/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 191-198
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Hungarian