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6Kant's Empirical RealismOxford University Press. 2002.Immanuel Kant claims that transcendental idealism yields a form of realism at the empirical level. Polite silence might best describe the reception this assertion has garnered among even sympathetic interpreters. This book challenges that prejudice, offering a controversial presentation and rehabilitation of Kant's empirical realism that places his realist credentials at the centre of the account of representation he offers in the Critique of Pure Reason. This interpretation ranges over the majo…Read more
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17The Demands of Systematicity: Rational Judgment and the Structure of NatureIn Graham Bird (ed.), A Companion to Kant, Blackwell. pp. 408-422. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Section 1: Rational Judgment and Understanding Section 2: The Structure of Systematicity Section 3: Systematicity as Methodological Maxim? Section 4: Nature and Rational Structure.
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101Putnam’s Internal Realism and Kant’s Empirical RealismIdealistic Studies 26 (1): 45-56. 1996.This paper challenges Putnam's claim that his internal realism is a revival of Kant's empirical realism. I agree with Putnam that there are good reasons to revive Kant's rather neglected empirical realist doctrine. However, internal realism is not the way this should be done. At the center of the following discussion lies the important difference between Putman's "real within a scheme" model and Kant's assertion of the independent existence of empirical objects. The strategy for the paper is as …Read more
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68Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 45 (4): 558-560. 2005.
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30Kantian walls and bridges: Challenging the integrationist model of the relation of theoretical and practical reasonBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (4): 591-615. 2002.No abstract
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265Kant's empirical realismOxford University Press. 2002.Paul Abela presents a powerful, experience-sensitive form of realism about the relation between mind and world, based on an innovative interpretation of Kant. Abela breaks with tradition in taking seriously Kant's claim that his Transcendental Idealism yields a form of empirical realism, and giving a realist analysis of major themes of the Critique of Pure Reason. Abela's blending of Kantian scholarship with contemporary epistemology offers a new way of resolving philosophical debates about real…Read more
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14Joel Smith And Peter Sullivan , Transcendental Philosophy And Naturalism Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 Pp. 224 Isbn 978-0-19-960855-3 , Us $60.00 (review)Kantian Review 18 (1): 148-154. 2013.Book Reviews Paul Abela, Kantian Review, FirstView Article
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331Is less always more? An argument against the natural ontological attitudePhilosophical Quarterly 46 (182): 72-76. 1996.
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101Review: Smith & Sullivan (eds), Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism (review)Kantian Review 18 (1): 148-154. 2013.Book Reviews Paul Abela, Kantian Review, FirstView Article
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15Book reviews (review)International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 7 (2): 191-207. 1993.The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences Paul Humphreys, 1989 Princeton University Press x+170 pp., £12.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 691 020286 8; £25.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 69107353 8In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years Karl Popper London, Routledge £25.00 (hardback)Artificial Morality: Virtuous Robots for Virtual Games Peter Danielson, 1992 London, Routledge £35.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 415 034841; £10.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 4…Read more
Paul Abela
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