From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

Bringing together an international range of younger philosophers and established thinkers, this volume opens up the idea of the transcendental in philosophy.;1. Kant's critical debut : the idea of the transcendental in Kant's early thought / Camilla Serck-Hanssen -- 2. The fact of judgement : the Kantian response to the Humean condition / Juliet Floyd -- 3. Making sense : Husserl's phenomenology as transcendental idealism / Dermot Moran -- 4. From the transcendental to the 'topological' : Heidegger on ground, unity and limit / Jeff Malpas -- 5. Facticity and transcendental philosophy / Steven Crowell -- 6. Heidegger in America or how transcendental philosophy becomes pragmatic / Mark Okrent -- 7. On the power and limit of transcendental reflection / Karsten Harries -- 8. The opening to infinity : Derrida's quasi-transcendentals / Claire Colebrook -- 9. Noam Chomsky's linguistic revolution : Cartesian or Kantian? / Bruce W. Fraser -- 10. Non-rational grounds and mind-transcendent objects / Mark A. Wrathall -- 11. Transcendental or epistemological? McDowell's justification of empirical knowledge / Anita Leirfall -- 12. Davidson's transcendental argumentation / Andrew N. Carpenter. Recent philosophy has seen the idea of the transcendental, first introduced in its modern form in the work of Kant, take on a new prominence. Bringing together an international range of younger philosophers and established thinkers, this volume opens up the idea of the transcendental, examining it not merely as a mode of argument, but as naming a particular problematic and a philosophical style. With contributions engaging with both analytic and continental approaches, this book will be of essential interest to philosophers and philosophy students interested in the idea of the transcendental and the part that it plays in modern and contemporary philosophy. Of the ideas that make up the conceptual repertoire of philosophy, the idea of the transcendental, for all the history that attaches to it, has often been seen as having something particularly disreputable about it. Edited By Jeff Malpas. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [238]-249) And Index.