Kant on receptivity and representation
pp. 23-40
in: Roxana Baiasu, Graham Bird, A. W. Moore (eds), Contemporary Kantian metaphysics, Berlin, Springer, 2012Abstract
if Kant offered a comprehensive theory of receptivity, it is unknown.1 That anything in Kant is unknown may beggar belief. From the ear- liest period of the Critique of Pure Reason, writers such as J.S. Beck and K.L. Reinhold surveyed, and gently pressed, Kant on his treatment of receptivity.2 The rather oblique discussions of receptivity among con- temporary Kantians tend to range through theories of noumenal causa-tion,two- worlds ontologies and variations on standpoint perspectives. Standing outside the in- house discussions, John McDowell's recent work has rekindled interest in the larger community of epistemologists concerning available resources within the Kantian tradition.3
