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Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory? Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2016

Sorin Baiasu
Sorin Baiasu*
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Keele University
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Abstract

In his recent book, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics, Adrian W. Moore takes Kant to play a crucial role in the evolution of modern philosophy; yet, for him, Kant’s metaphysics is ultimately and profoundly unsatisfactory. In this article, I examine several of Moore’s objections and provide replies. My claim is that Moore’s reading points to fundamental issues, yet these are not issues of Kant’s transcendental idealism, but of the traditional idealism his view has often been taken to represent.

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KantmetaphysicsA. W. Mooresynthetic a prioritranscendental idealismself-stultification

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Kantian Review , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 465 - 481
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© Kantian Review 2016 

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