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Daniel Smyth, Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 260pp., $110.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781009330312.
Reviewed by Rosalind Chaplin, UNC Chapel Hill
In the opening sentences of the Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant writes that intuition is that through which cognition relates immediately to objects (A19/B33). He then adds that intuitions belong to the faculty of sensibility, which enables objects to be given to us, while the understanding is the faculty of concepts and thought (A19/B33). Thus, at the very outset of the Critique, Kant appears simply to stipulate that sensibility is the faculty of object-giving intuitions, while understanding is the faculty of concepts, a stipulation that proves fundamental to his arguments for transcendental idealism. Given this, a pressing question concerns how Kant justifies his characterizations of sensibility and understanding. On what grounds does Kant assert that intuitions and concepts have the features he attributes to them, and can…
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