Transcendental knowability and a priori luminosity
Transcendental knowability and a priori luminosity
This paper draws out and connects two neglected issues in Kant’s conception of a priori knowledge. Both concern topics that have been central to contemporary epistemology and to formal epistemology in particular: knowability and luminosity. Does Kant commit to some form of knowability principle according to which certain necessary truths are in principle knowable to beings like us? Does Kant commit to some form of luminosity principle according to which, if a subject knows a priori, then they can know that they know a priori? I defend affirmative answers to both of these questions. And by considering the special kind of modality involved in Kant’s conceptions of possible experience and the essential completability of metaphysics, I argue that the combination of knowability and luminosity principles leads Kant into difficulty.
Kant, anti-realsim, knowability, luminosity, KK principle, a priori knowledge
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Stephenson, Andrew
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28 May 2021
Stephenson, Andrew
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Stephenson, Andrew
(2021)
Transcendental knowability and a priori luminosity.
History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis, 23, .
Abstract
This paper draws out and connects two neglected issues in Kant’s conception of a priori knowledge. Both concern topics that have been central to contemporary epistemology and to formal epistemology in particular: knowability and luminosity. Does Kant commit to some form of knowability principle according to which certain necessary truths are in principle knowable to beings like us? Does Kant commit to some form of luminosity principle according to which, if a subject knows a priori, then they can know that they know a priori? I defend affirmative answers to both of these questions. And by considering the special kind of modality involved in Kant’s conceptions of possible experience and the essential completability of metaphysics, I argue that the combination of knowability and luminosity principles leads Kant into difficulty.
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Accepted/In Press date: 5 November 2020
Published date: 28 May 2021
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Kant, anti-realsim, knowability, luminosity, KK principle, a priori knowledge
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