Standard interpretations of Kant’s transcendental idealism take it as a 1 commitment to the view that the objects of cognition are structured or made by con2 ditions imposed by the mind, and therefore to what Van Cleve calls “honest-to-God 3 idealism”. Against this view, many more recent investigations of Kant’s theory of rep4 resentation and cognitive significance have been able to show that K...

We aim to present Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) (1772-1801) as a precursor of ecological thought, observing how he values nature in his result constant attempt overcome Fichtean dualism by means poetry, through the study natural sciences and also Plotinus’ philosophy. observe that Novalis tries, with partial success, modify Philosophy, evolving from subjective idealism fashion towards sync...

Wittgenstein characterises ‘necessary truths’ as rules of representation that do not answer to reality. The invocation has led many compare his work with Kant's. This comparison is illuminating, but it can also be misleading. Some go far casting Wittgenstein's later philosophy a specie transcendental idealism, an interpretation continues gather support despite scholars pointing its limitations....

The Philosophies Held by Instructors of Lifelong-learners (PHIL) was developed to identify a respondent's preference for one of the major schools of philosophical thought: Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, Existentialism, or Reconstructionism. Using the pool of items from an established instrument, its final form and content validity were determined by a series of discriminant analyses. Criterion-...