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 … [continue reading]

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Schulting, D. (ed.), Kantian Nonconceptualism. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Robert Hanna’s “Kant’s Non-Conceptualism, Rogue Objects, and the Gap in the B Deduction” is about the nature of the relationship between (1) the doctrine of Non-Conceptualism about mental content, (2) Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, and (3) the Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding, or … [continue reading]

(Scientific American, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Chaitin and Borel 3. B.H. Slater 4. N.J. Wildberger 5. A Benacerraf-Inspired Critique of Real Numbers 6. Critique of Other Accounts of Real Numbers 7. Infinite Decimals and a Contradiction The following essay has been published in four installments; this installment, the fourth and final one, … [continue reading]

Schulting, D. (ed.), Kantian Nonconceptualism. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. In “Kantian Non-Conceptualism,” Robert Hanna advances a rigorous defense of non-conceptual mental content, contending not only for its existence but for its foundational role in cognition. Against the dominant “Conceptualist” thesis—which holds that all mental content is structured by and accessible only through conceptual capacities—Hanna articulates and … [continue reading]

(Scientific American, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Chaitin and Borel 3. B.H. Slater 4. N.J. Wildberger 5. A Benacerraf-Inspired Critique of Real Numbers 6. Critique of Other Accounts of Real Numbers 7. Infinite Decimals and a Contradiction The following essay will be published in four installments; this installment, the third, contains sections 5 … [continue reading]

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(Scientific American, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Chaitin and Borel 3. B.H. Slater 4. N.J. Wildberger 5. A Benacerraf-Inspired Critique of Real Numbers 6. Critique of Other Accounts of Real Numbers 7. Infinite Decimals and a Contradiction The following essay will be published in four installments; this installment, the second, contains section 4. … [continue reading]

Schulting, D. (ed.), Kantian Nonconceptualism. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. In “Kant and Nonconceptual Content,” Robert Hanna argues that Immanuel Kant is a significant early proponent of nonconceptual mental content—Kant’s notion of intuitional cognitive content is fundamentally equivalent to contemporary notions of nonconceptual content. Hanna contends that Kant’s famous dictum “intuitions without concepts are blind” should be understood as … [continue reading]

(Scientific American, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Chaitin and Borel 3. B.H. Slater 4. N.J. Wildberger 5. A Benacerraf-Inspired Critique of Real Numbers 6. Critique of Other Accounts of Real Numbers 7. Infinite Decimals and a Contradiction The following essay will be published in four installments; this installment, the first, contains sections 1-3. … [continue reading]