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Kant on Mind-Dependence: Possible or Actual Experience?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2023

Markus Kohl
Markus Kohl*
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Abstract

In Kant’s idealism, all spatiotemporal objects depend on the human mind in a certain way. A central issue here is whether the existence of spatiotemporal things requires that these things are, at least at some point, objects of some actual experience or of a merely possible experience. In this essay, I argue (on textual and philosophical grounds) for the latter view: spatiotemporal things exist (or spatiotemporal events occur) if they are objects of a (suitably qualified) possible experience.

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Kant’s ontologytranscendental idealismmind-dependencepossible experiencemodality
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Kantian Review , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , June 2023 , pp. 239 - 258
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Kantian Review

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