The constitution of objects in Kant's philosophy and in modern physics

Peter Mittelstaedt

pp. 115-129

in: Paolo Parrini (ed), Kant and contemporary epistemology, Berlin, Springer, 1994

Abstract

From a historical point of view the main goal of Kant's transcendental deduction in the Critique of Pure Reason was to show that there are well defined limits for the validity of the synthetic judgements a priori. Since objects of experience are constituted by means of certain categories, the general statements which follow from these categories are a priori valid for all objects of experience, but the a priori validity is also restricted to these objects. "Consequently, there can be no a priori knowledge, except of objects of possible experience."

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel