Reviews for Logic: Philosophy of Quine,Volume Five, Vol. 5

The average rating for Logic: Philosophy of Quine,Volume Five, Vol. 5 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-08-20 00:00:00 David Romero It's quite interesting how Strawson disjoins Kant's project of analyzing the conditions of possibility of experience from the transcendental idealism, while rejecting the latter. He's quite critical of Kant especially when it comes to his idea of transcendental subjectivity of space and time but still, his readings can be quite sympathetic (possibly, as sympathetic as can be from within the Anglo-Saxon Tradition.) For example, while the modern developments of mathematics (Non-Euclidean Geometry) and physics (Relativity) were seemingly invalidating Kant's theory of geometry, Strawson presented quite an insightful defense. At the times when the positivists were hostile towards the German idealists such as Kant and dismissing their ideas as gibberish, Strawson showed how important Kant can be, even within the Analytical Tradition.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-10-27 00:00:00 Vanessa Pelle This is a book that I wish I had read a long time ago. Not because Strawson gets Kant right - there have been a number of critiques of this book and I'm fairly certain that his reading is less than charitable at certain key spots - nor because he is always convincing (he's not); but because he rigorously illustrates the implausibility of what might be called the 'standard picture' of Kant's First Critique while simultaneously showing the unavoidability and lasting significance of the Kantian project. Specifically, he shows the implausibility of transcendental idealism while showing that the central question of the transcendental project that of the conditions of the possibility of experience is a fundamental philosophical question.