Kant, Wittgenstein, and the Performativity of Thought (1st ed. 2021)
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- Synopsis
- This book explores the idea that there is a certain performativity of thought connecting Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. On this view, we make judgments and use propositions because we presuppose that our thinking is about something, and that our propositions have sense. Kant’s requirement of an a priori connection between intuitions and concepts is akin to Wittgenstein’s idea of the general propositional form as sharing a form with the world. Aloisia Moser argues that Kant speaks about acts of the mind, not about static categories. Furthermore, she elucidates the Tractatus’ logical form as a projection method that turns into a so-called ‘zero method’, whereby propositions are merely the scaffolding of the world. In so doing, Moser connects Kantian reflective judgment to Wittgensteinian rule-following. She thereby presents an account of performativity centering neither on theories nor methods, but on the application enacting them in the first place.
- Copyright:
- 2021
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- ISBN-13:
- 9783030775506
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030775490
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 09/18/21
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- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Science, Health, Mind and Body, Philosophy
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