...A. W. Moore KANTIAN HUMILITY: OUR IGNORANCE OF THINGS IN THEMSELVES. By Rae Langton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 232. Cornell University 2001 Kant, Immanuel. 1781/1787. Kritik der reinen Vernunft. English translation: Critique of Pure Reason, trans. and ed...

...Shamik Dasgupta Sometimes, ignorance is inexpressible. Lewis recognized this when he argued, in “Ramseyan Humility,” that we cannot know which property occupies which causal role. This peculiar state of ignorance arises in a number of other domains too, including ignorance about our position...

... be an important difference between what Kant says about discursive cognizers with other forms of sensibility and what he is in a position to say about discursive cognizers with other forms of understanding. Kantian humility here takes on a distinctive character. —Immanuel Kant (A478/B506) 1...

... problematic: Kant's doctrine entails that we cannot cognize things as they are in themselves but only “appearances” (Kantian humility). But it also claims to establish that there are things in themselves and that they are not spatial or temporal—indeed, those items of knowledge are supposed to be part...

..., in the setup above, committing to believe ‘X’ cannot be better than planning to reevaluate, no matter what the probabilities. However, there are two cases in which committing can be better, for particular probabilities. Other philosophers deny HUMILITY. Many of these philosophers concentrate...

... to be so strong that we must recognize first the shortcomings of physical ways of understanding it and now intellectual discursive ways of understanding it. One could be forgiven for wondering whether we do, in fact, understand it at all. Strawson's work is characterized by an intriguing mix of humility...

...: it lacks a feature I'll call ground floor humility . Very roughly speaking, a plenitude principle is ground floor humble if it is compatible with any reasonable hypothesis about the distribution of neutral properties through modal space. My aim in this section is to suggest that unlike Merely Modal...

... Langton, Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves, reviewed by A. W. Moore 117 Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Probbm of Evil, reviewed by Thomas P. Flint 120 Julia Annas, Platonic Ethics, Old and New, reviewed by Rachel Barney...

... part of the book, Fleischacker spells out the political implications of his theory, arguing that while secular morality suffices “to define and ground politics” (433), sincere commitment to revelatory texts—and specifically, the deep sense of humility imbedded in these texts—should point the religious...

... aware of their difficulties. We struggle with Hill as he attempts to overcome objections and as he reasons his way through pressing philosophical problems. Hill's writing is honest. It is marked by intellectual humility. And it is inspiring. The book, in other words, is an embodiment of successful...

..., but epistemic humility: what is denied to us is not any access whatever to these things, but only knowledge of their intrinsic or non-relational features. . . . the phrase ‘knowledgeof things as they appear’ contrasts not with ‘knowledge of things as they really...

... that says ignorance of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility: what is denied to us is not any access whatever to these things, but only knowledge of their intrinsic or non-relational features. . . . the phrase ‘knowledgeof things as they appear’ contrasts...

... that many (if not all) virtuous people seem to have. Some draw a distinction between modesty and humility; for example, Nuyen (1998) and Ben-Ze’ev (1993) claim that humility involves underestima- tion, while modesty does not. I take the terms to be interchangeable but will use the term “modest” in my...

... if more practitioners shared Sobel's characteristic thoughtful humility, as well as the creativity, awareness of the history of philosophy, and attention to detail so often manifest in this excellent volume. When read together, the essays in this collection embody a coherent and appealing...

... only be something represented that is somehow analogous to but not identical with properties things really have in themselves. Here Sellars leads in the direction of Rae Langton’s more recent approach (Kantian Humility, 1998). This approach, it must be acknowledged, does build on one argument...

.... Synthese 144 : 415 -32. Langton, Rae. 1998 . Kantian Humility . New York: Oxford University Press. Lewis, David. 1986 . Philosophical Papers , vol. 2 . New York: Oxford University Press. ___. unpublished. Ramseyan Humility . Lycan, William. 2001 . Real Conditionals . Oxford: Oxford...

..., England: Imprint Academic, 2005. Pp. 295. Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption, and Virtue. By Jeanine Grenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 269. Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes. By William F. Harms. Cam- bridge: Cambridge...

... . On the Plurality of Worlds . Cambridge: Blackwell. ____. Forthcoming. Ramseyan Humility. In The Canberra Plan , ed. David Braddon-Mitchell and Robert Nola. Linsky, Bernard, and Edward Zalta. 1994 . In Defense of the Simplest Quantified Modal Logic. Philosophical Perspectives 8 : 431 -58. ____. 1996...

... University Press, Clarendon Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 554. The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery. By David E. Cooper. New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 2002. Pp. 372. Race, Racism, and Reparations. By J. Angelo Corlett. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp...

... and Chantal Mouffe. London: Verso, 2001. Pp. xix, 198. Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves. 1998. Reprint. By Rae Langton. New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 232. A Neomedieval Essay in Philosophical Theology. By Ramon M. Lemos. Lexington: Lexington...