Kantian Realisms: The Noumenal, Causation and Grounding
Kantian Realisms: The Noumenal, Causation and Grounding
This chapter outlines a strong version of ‘realism’ against what Meillassoux labels ‘correlationism’. It suggests, however, that the critiques made by certain realists of the Kantian noumenal can be answered. It begins by defending Kantian ‘empirical realism’ against the critiques of some realists. Then it moves on to claim that Kant’s arguments for transcendental idealism are stronger than those for Bhaskar’s transcendental realism. The chapter suggests, more controversially, that if one takes seriously Kant’s notion of ‘spontaneous causation’, it is possible to offer a Kantian defence of the ‘grounding’ of the phenomenal in the noumenal. Finally, it argues that Kant offers a stronger form of realism than is generally supposed by his critics.
Keywords: Kant, Bhaskar, Meillassoux, noumenal, phenomenal, transcendental realism, transcendental idealism, correlationism, causation, grounding
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