Kant's A Priori Intuition of Space Independent of Postulates

Defences of Kant's foundations of geometry fall short if they are unable to equally ground Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries. Thus, Kant's account must be separated from geometrical postulates. I argue that characterizing space as the form of outer intuition must be independent of pos...

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Veröffentlicht in:Kantian review 2012-03, Vol.17 (1), p.135-160
1. Verfasser: Valdez, Edgar J.
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Zusammenfassung:Defences of Kant's foundations of geometry fall short if they are unable to equally ground Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries. Thus, Kant's account must be separated from geometrical postulates. I argue that characterizing space as the form of outer intuition must be independent of postulates. Geometrical postulates are then expressions of particular spatializing activities made possible by the a priori intuition of space. While Amit Hagar contends that this is to speak of noumena, I argue that a Kantian account of space as the form of outer attention-directing remains seated in the subject.
ISSN:1369-4154
2044-2394
DOI:10.1017/S1369415411000367