Week X: Regulative Ideals (pp. 590-623) |
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General Secondary Reading (optional): Allison pp. 423-48. | |||
Question 1) How useful is the regulative/constitutive
distinction? Does Kant prove the necessity of regulative ideas?
Secondary literature: Smith, 473-7, 534-7, 541-61; Weldon, 127-37; Wilkerson, 154-9; Walsh, 241-9; Bennett, 270--80; Walker, 136-43; Pippin, 201-15; Allison 423-48; (optional: Grier 263-302). |
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Question 2) Allison writes that, insofar as the lawfulness of nature is merely a regulative idea, "it remains possible that nature does not exhibit any empirically accessible lawlike regularities." (Allison 1990: 34). Does Kant really leave this possibility open - is there no Kantian argument to defend specific scientific laws? [Optional: Assess with reference to the Appendix to the Dialectic and
the Introduction to the Critique of Judgment.] |
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Question 3) After Darwin, how convincing are Kant's claims for the uses of teleology? Secondary literature: Critique of Judgment, introduction; McFarland, 25-42 [optional: 69-97]; Walker, 165-77; Körner, 196-214; find one further source on your own. |
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