A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Existence Dualism in Kant and its Cartesian Roots
Authors: Laiho Hemmo, Koistinen Olli
Publisher: Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência (CLE)
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Kant e-prints
Volume: 17
Issue: 1
First page : 13
Last page: 33
eISSN: 1677-163X
Web address : https://www.cle.unicamp.br/eprints/index.php/kant-e-prints/article/view/1608/1240
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/175788774
We argue that Kant advocates existence dualism in a largely Cartesian vein. In such a dualism,there are two basic kinds of existence or ways of being: I-existence and categorial existence. I-existence denotes myexistence,whilecategorial existence denotes, basically,the existence of ordinary things. First, we show how the route to existence is fundamentally different in the two cases. Then we ask whether they also indicate two ontologically distinct kindsand argue that I-existence should be regarded as thefundamental kindof existence in any case. One important consequence of this is that I-existence stands outside the Kantian conditions of experience, being the oneun-Copernican element left intact after Kant’s Copernican turn.
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