Rationalist Empiricism - A Theory of Speculative Critique (True PDF)

Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (True PDF)



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Nathan Brown | 2021 | ISBN: 082329000X | English | 272 pages | True PDF | 21 MB

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Twenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement with the relation between rationalism and empiricism. If Kant’s transcendental philosophy attempted to displace the opposing priorities of those orientations, any speculative critique of Kant will have to re-open and consider anew the conflict and complementarity of reason and experience. Rationalist Empiricism shows that the capacity of reason and experience to extend and yet delimit each other has always been at the core of philosophy and science. Coordinating their discrepant powers, Brown argues, is what enables speculation to move forward in concert with critique.