In the first part of article, Giuseppe Veronese’s concept arithmetical constructivism is reconstructed from his dispersed remarks. It pointed out that although for Veronese time a necessary condition construction natural numbers by an individual subject and cognizes in priori way, it not (proto-)intuition subject. This fundamental difference between proposed Kant Brouwer. justification subject’...

Gottlob Frege’s contributions to philosophy of language are so numerous and so fundamental that it is difficult to imagine the field without them. That this should be so was not, however, Frege’s original intent. Frege was trained as a mathematician, and most of his non-foundational mathematical work lay at the intersection of geometry and complex analysis. That makes it at least somewhat surpr...

Regardless of one’s particular philosophical interests and convictions, it is evident that the notion of autonomy is an important one. However, agreement about the nature of autonomy and about what it requires has proven elusive in contemporary discussions. In Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Karl Ameriks addresses this impasse by going back to the historical roots of this notion in Kant and argui...

Fichte assigns ‘intellectual intuition’ a new meaning after Kant. But in 1799, his doctrine of intellectual intuition is publicly deemed indefensible by Kant and nihilistic Jacobi. I propose to defend Fichte’s against these charges, leaving aside whether it captures what he calls the ‘spirit’ transcendental idealism. do so articulating three problems that motivate redirection from being acting:...

In the preface to his Thoughts on True Estimation of Living Forces Kant was unusually bold in stating that now one could be confident enough disregard Leibniz and Newton as authorities if they impeded acquiring truth, pointing out they, too, found making mistakes. What force it inspired young such resolution first work dedicated common European argument concerning measure motion a physical body...

Arithmetical truths are a priori, but our understanding of them starts with the practical experience counting. Whether arithmetic is analytic – or synthetic as Kant maintained turns out to depend on what view we take about precise scope logic. A survey mathematical theorizing various kinds numbers shows that there more than one kind “construction” “intuition” involved. Kant’s conception priori ...

Both Leibniz and Kant were heirs of such a tradition. But both were also explanatory rationalists about the empirical world: more committed than your average philosopher to its thoroughgoing intelligibility. (Leibniz was also an explanatory rationalist about the nonempirical, fundamental world; on that issue, given his commitments to freedom and noumenal ignorance, Kant famously demurred.) Thes...