Immanuel

Globalization and the sociology of Immanuel Wallerstein: A critical appraisal

By the turn of the 21st century the concept of globalization had earned its place in the social sciences and debate turned more squarely to the theoretical significance of globalization. Yet not all scholars were happy with the notion of globalization. Some claim that is merely a new name for earlier theories and concepts. Among those who reject new paradigmatic thinking on the current age is I...

A defense of Immanuel Kant's notion of practical reason

A defense of Immanuel Kant's notion of practical reason" (1993). CUNY Academic Works. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Schwarzenbach, for her assistance in this project. I am especially grateful for the content of her instruction and the work ethic she has instilled in me; each of which I am confident will have a significant influence in much of...

IMMANUEL KANT Critique of the power of judgment

Immanuel Kant and the Development of Modern Psychology

Hilary Putnam And Immanuel Kant: Two 'Internal Realists'?

Since 1976 Hilary Putnam has drawn parallels between his ‘internal’, ‘pragmatic’, ‘natural’ or ‘common-sense’ realism and Kant’s transcendental idealism. Putnam reads Kant as rejecting the then current metaphysical picture with its in-built assumptions of a unique, mind-independent world, and truth understood as correspondence between the mind and that ready-made world. Putnam reads Kant as ove...