Experience and conceptual content in Kant and McDowell. Remarks on “empty thoughts” and “blind intuitions”
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All the quotations from Kant’s texts are from the Akademie-Ausgabe von Immanuel Kants Gesammelten Werken (hrsg. von der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie de Wissen- schaften zu Berlin 1902-). Only the Kritik der reinen Vernunft is quoted after Jens Timmermann’ s edition. The following abbreviations have been used in this paper:
GUGR – Von dem ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden im Raume (AA 02).
HN – Handschriftlicher Nachlass (AA 14-23).
KrV – Kritik der reinen Vernunft, hrsg. von. J. Timmermann, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 1998.
Log – Logik (AA 09).
MSI – De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis (AA 02).
Prol – Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können (AA 04).
Refl – Reflexion (AA 14-19).
UDGTM – Untersuchung über die Deutlichkeit der Grundsätze der natürlichen Theologie und Moral (AA 02).
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