Schulting, D. (ed.), Kantian Nonconceptualism. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant says that “appearances can certainly be given in intuition without functions of the understanding” (A90/B122) and also that “intuition by no means requires the functions of thinking” (A91/B123). This opens up the real possibility of what Kant calls “blind intuitions” (A71/B75), that is, empirical or a priori intuitions that represent objects without involving either empirical or a priori (categorial) concepts, and also the real possibility of what Robert Hanna calls essentially rogue objects, that is, objectively real objects, veridically represented by empirical or a priori intuitions, that necessarily fall outside the scope of either empirical or categorial concepts. In “Kantian Madness: Blind Intuitions, Essentially Rogue Objects, Nomological Deviance, and Categorial Anarchy,” Hanna does three things: first, spell out the basic issues at stake in the contemporary debate about Kant’s conceptualism vs. Kant’s non-conceptualism, second, identify, compare, and contrast five different kinds of essentially rogue objects described by Kant in his Critical and post-Critical periods, and third, explore the systematic significance and two profound implications of their nomological deviance and categorial anarchy for Kant’s metaphysics of transcendental idealism, or TI, and for his Critical philosophy more generally.
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