• The contemporary debate on Kant’s distinction between appearances and things in themselves has its roots in the contrast between two-worlds and two-aspects interpretations. In the last decades, scholars such as Langton (1998) and Allais (2015) have developed an allegedly moderate middle ground between the previously dominant views, i.e., the so-called ‘ontological two-aspects’ interpretation. This article argues that the ontological two-aspects view should be regarded as a reformed Strawsonian i…Read more
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    Lo studio di Stefano Bacin ha per oggetto l’introduzione, ad opera di Kant, di un uso e di un significato del concetto di autonomia indipendenti dall’ambito della filosofia politica (vd. Schneewind, The Invention of Autonomy, Cambridge, CUP, 1998). Il suo libro, cioè, «esamina come, perché e con quali immediate implicazioni teoriche la nozione di autonomia entrò nel vocabolario filosofico moderno, e in particolare nel lessico dell’etica» (p. 7) con la pubblicazione della Grundlegung zur Metaphys…Read more
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    After Peter Strawson’s 1966 essay and for the following twenty years, his reading of the phaenomena-noumena distinction became popular among scholars under the label of “two worlds” interpretation. I first outline Strawson’s interpretation to show that this label deeply misrepresents his views. Strawson, as well as other advocates of the “two worlds” interpretation, never developed an account of this distinction through which appearances could properly be said to exist or to constitute a world. …Read more