Positing or Predicating? Existence after Kant

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• 批准号: AH/Y007506/1
• 负责人: Mark Textor
• 金额: $ 44.87万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY007506%2F1
• 关键词: Positing; Predicating; Existence; after; Kant

Many central philosophical issues concern the existence of things of certain kinds. In other words, we try to get clear whether numbers exist or not, whether properties exist or not and so one. At the same time existence is a puzzling property: it seems not to qualify or determine things further like, for instance, the property of being red does. Given, on the one hand, its fundamental importance and, on the other, its puzzling character it is unsurprising that philosophers have theorized about existence since antiquity. Kant's take on existence is generally seen as a paradigm change in the history of thinking about this concept. The discussion of Kant's innovation focused so far almost exclusively on Frege, Russell, Quine and their followers and ignored 19th century contributions that worked out Kant's thought in radically different and fruitful ways. Our project intends to change this situation. We will explore the most important 19th century constructive responses to Kant's view of existence and thereby provide a better understanding of the Kantian paradigm change as well as gain new insights into existence. We will argue that the 19th century engagement with Kant adds something new to contemporary work on existence and can be compared and contrasted in fruitful ways with it.

许多中心哲学问题涉及某些事物的存在。换句话说，我们试图清楚数字是否存在，是否存在属性以及一个属性。同时，存在是一个令人困惑的属性：似乎没有限定或进一步确定事物，例如，红色的属性确实存在。一方面，它的根本重要性，另一方面，它令人困惑的性格是毫不奇怪的是，哲学家自上古以来就存在理论上的存在。康德对生存的看法通常被视为思考这个概念的历史的范式变化。迄今为止，关于康德创新的讨论几乎完全集中在弗雷格，罗素，奎因及其追随者上，并忽略了19世纪的贡献，这些贡献以根本不同和富有成果的方式阐明了康德的思想。我们的项目打算改变这种情况。我们将探索19世纪最重要的建设性反应，对康德的存在观点，从而更好地了解康德范式的变化，并获得对存在的新见解。我们将争辩说，19世纪与康德的互动为现代作品增添了一些新作品，可以与之进行比较和形成鲜明对比。