Imagination and Inner Intuition
Imagination and Inner Intuition
In this paper I return to the question of whether intuition is object-dependent. Kant’s account of the imagination appears to suggest that intuition is not object-dependent. On a recent proposal, however, the imagination is a faculty of merely inner intuition, the inner objects of which exist and are present in the way demanded by object-dependence views, such as Lucy Allais’s relational account. I argue against this proposal on both textual and philosophical grounds. It is inconsistent with what Kant says about how the imagination functions and is ultimately incompatible with the relational account it is supposed to support. Kant’s account of the imagination remains a serious obstacle for the view that intuition is object-dependent.
Kant, Imagination, Intuition, object-dependence, memory, hallucination, Presence, Perception, consciousness
104-123
Stephenson, Andrew
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2017
Stephenson, Andrew
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Stephenson, Andrew
(2017)
Imagination and Inner Intuition.
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Stephenson, Andrew and Gomes, Anil
(eds.)
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: Perception, Reason, and the Self.
Oxford University Press, .
(doi:10.1093/oso/9780198724957.003.0006).
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In this paper I return to the question of whether intuition is object-dependent. Kant’s account of the imagination appears to suggest that intuition is not object-dependent. On a recent proposal, however, the imagination is a faculty of merely inner intuition, the inner objects of which exist and are present in the way demanded by object-dependence views, such as Lucy Allais’s relational account. I argue against this proposal on both textual and philosophical grounds. It is inconsistent with what Kant says about how the imagination functions and is ultimately incompatible with the relational account it is supposed to support. Kant’s account of the imagination remains a serious obstacle for the view that intuition is object-dependent.
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Kant, Imagination, Intuition, object-dependence, memory, hallucination, Presence, Perception, consciousness
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