Geoffrey Warnock on Kant: Section 2

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Contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discusses the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view that activities and powers within the mind are the key to knowledge, and that all knowledge is appearance. Knowledge for Kant, is a complex affair, in which knowing is acquired not just through the senses, but through pure concepts of understanding indigenous to the mind. Countering Hume, Kant insists it is the mind, not the senses, which unifies and organizes sensory flow into meaning full definitions of things.

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Uploaded: May 24, 2008 at 2:46 pm
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Length: 00:08:25
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Tags: Bryan Magee Geoffrey Warnock Immanuel Kant Philosophy Mind Knowledge David Hume

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jamesthenabignumber (August 15, 2008 at 8:05 pm)
He doesn't seem to understand Hume and, therefore, Kant on induction. Magee, who was a friend and biographer of Karl Popper is leading Warnock onto the problem of induction and how scientific theories are not products of experience and deduction, or synthetic (just like philosophy - as Warnock is discussing). When Warnock says that he thinks Hume believed science could go on despite the problem of induction and that the law were by no means necessary, he confuses a priori with synthetic.
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elxtranjero (July 13, 2008 at 12:57 am)
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