Phil 202 1st Edition Lecture 19Outline of Last Lecture I. Intuition and the Synthetic A prioriII. Space and TimeIII. Identifying KantOutline of Current Lecture I. Judgements: Experience vs. ObjectII. Concepts as Functions of UnityCurrent LectureI. Judgements: Experience vs. Object- For Kant, thinking = judging- Judgements: o of perception (The hat feels warm.) vs. o of experience (The hat is made of wool.)- Whatever makes our experience of objects possible, also makes objects possible.o [Need to have spatial and temporal relations]- Judging = subsuming object under a concept; this is called subscription.o Ex: “made of wool”; concept: hat- Quality: o S is Po S is –Po S is (-P) this is an infinite judgement.- Categorical Relation:o If S, then P. (This is a hypothetical relation, which presupposes the concept of causality.)o S or PThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o S is P (This presupposes a community of totality. Judgements are objects. A priori concepts are implicit.)o The following have to do with time: S is possibly P. S is actually P. (This could change.) S is necessarily P. (This cannot ever change.)II. Concepts as Functions of Unity- Concepts are functions of unity: The sun warms the stone. (SP)- Kant says we experience connected events because that’s how our mind works.o This is against Hume who argues they are disconnected events constantly conjoined and based on perception.- Kant: The “I” of self-consciousness means we are aware of unifying so we must be unifying. Self-consciousness would not exist without categories of thought.- There are categories of thought in the experience we have.- Categories of thought: substance, cause, necessity, space & time- self-consciousness unifying action and thought judging according to mostly a priori concepts- schema – produced by imagination: how does one imagine time?- The concept of causality:o The mind orders time for us.o Succession is implicit (This proves Hume wrong.)- Kant thinks the imagination is the deepest mystery of the soul- The mind organizes our experience so we can have that
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