Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (with Robert Hanna) | Immanuel Kant Philosophy #7

This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Robert Hanna. Robert Hanna is an independent philosopher, Co-Director of the online philosophy mega-project, Philosophy Without Borders, and Director of The Contemporary Kantian Philosophy Project. He is the author of several books including 'Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy', and 'Kant, Science, and Human Nature'. This conversation is part of the 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast.

In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Kant's First Critique and Kant's influence on the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy.

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:40 - Representational Transcendentalism & Cognitive Idealism
5:20 - Human Reason's Peculiar Fate
16:08 - The Modal Problem & The Semantic Problem
22:06 - The Active Mind
33:50 - Representation
38:44 - Limits of our Understanding
47:23 - Intuitions & Concepts
53:03 - Idealism & Relativism
58:48 - Problem of Outer Affection
1:06:20 - 'Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy'
1:15:06 - Quine & Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
1:31:56 - Syntheticity
1:37:15 - Possible Worlds
1:45:06 - Rational Anthropology

[Daretoknow]

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:40 - Representational Transcendentalism & Cognitive Idealism
5:20 - Human Reason's Peculiar Fate
16:08 - The Modal Problem & The Semantic Problem
22:06 - The Active Mind
33:50 - Representation
38:44 - Limits of our Understanding
47:23 - Intuitions & Concepts
53:03 - Idealism & Relativism
58:48 - Problem of Outer Affection
1:06:20 - 'Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy'
1:15:06 - Quine & Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
1:31:56 - Syntheticity
1:37:15 - Possible Worlds
1:45:06 - Rational Anthropology

[logike]

Bob is great. I was fortunate enough to study in his classes dealing with Kant's CPR and how that ties into contemporary analytic philosophy. Get his books, for sure, and maybe acquire a quick background in the analytic/synthetic, a priori/a posteriori, and necessary/contingent distinctions. Kripke's and other causal theories of reference challenge that. But Bob fires back against scientific essentialism. Never forget that Kant and Bob are empirical *realists* and transcendental idealists. But this isn't Berkeley all over again, either.

[amourdesoipittie]

Can you have Robert Hanna on again? I would like to ask a few questions.

About intentionally interacting with the world where Robert Hanna claims Kants view is better than Chomskys I have to disagree. Ask yourself this question can you intentionally jump to the top of a cupboard of 10 ft height? No. Point being your interaction with the world dependant and constricted by nature and human nature. Much like a human cannot run 20m/s he also cannot have thoughts over concepts which he does not possess.

Also intension or representations which Chomsky focuses on is not semantics relation, ie mind world relation. But these representations basically light up and through innate unconcious rules of inference create the phenomena of meaning which we can observe through our inner eye.