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.... All of these features seem quite independent, however: they can come apart; they share no obvious common cause or explanation; and if they often occur together, this seems accidental. It is not clear, then, how Marx’s concept of alienated labor could possess the strong unity that he takes it to have...

... a 3 ) and replacing a 1 , a 2 , and a 3 with the cubic's three solutions x 1 , x 2 , and x 3 in every possible order—where ω = ( − 1 + 3 i ) / 2 , one of the cube roots of unity. But the three solutions generated by even permutations of x 1 , x 2 , and x 3 —namely, 1/3 (x 1...

... as such is first generated by the understanding through an act of synthesis of the imagination. Against this reading, this article argues that a key characteristic of space as a form of intuition is its nonconceptual unity, which defines the properties of space and is as such necessarily independent...

...Harvey Lederman This article presents a new interpretation of the great Ming dynasty philosopher Wang Yangming’s (1472–1529) celebrated doctrine of the “unity of knowledge and action” (知行合一). Wang held that action was not unified with all knowledge, but only with an elevated form of knowledge...

...- 465 BOOK REVlEWS surpassed in his sensitivity to such issues. It remains unclear, however, what Hurley takes herself finally to have achieved. Midway through the book, she states that the two conditions she defends as sufficient for the unity of consciousness...

... presuppose synthetic unity of apperception. Chapter 4 also offers an original approach to the relationship between time and space, and chapter 5 provides a useful guide to the upcoming study of the Analytic and—chapters 3–4 having ranged widely throughout Kant's writings but postponed evidence from...

...- ysis, according to which “the condition of personal identity” is “the condition that gives rise to … a commitment to achieving overall rational unity” (8) among “beliefs, desires and other psychological states and events” (20–21). Rovane claims that this condition can be satisfied both by “group...

... University Press. ———. 2007 . The Leibniz–Des Bosses Correspondence , ed. and trans. Brandon Look and Donald Rutherford. New Haven: Yale University Press. Levey, Samuel. 2003 . “On Unity: Leibniz–Arnauld Revisited.” Philosophical Topics 31 : 245 –75. ———. 2005 . “Leibniz on Precise Shapes...

... the reader, step by step, to a radically new philosophical project” (433). The B TD is interpreted as containing a different strategy, which consists of a single proof in two steps. The first part seeks to establish that any representation that is part of the objective unity of apperception is “related...

... and Littlefield, 1997. Pp. xii, 162. Robert Mayhew’s Aristotle’s Criticism of Pluto’s Republic focuses on Aristotle’s main objections to Plato’s political philosophy: the degree of unity envi- sioned by Plato is impossible/undesirable; too much unity undermines self- sufficiency; community of women...

... weight than the testimony of the Tractatus itself. This happens most notably in connection with the question of the unity of the atomic fact. In 1913 Russell maintains that the work of unifying the constituents of an atomic fact is performed by one of those very constituents, namely, by the relation...

... but firmly critiques other scholars’ attempts to escape this conclusion, for instance by saying that there is some sort of formal unity between the intellect and the individual human (the single intellect would, as Richard C. Taylor 2013 has stressed, be “form for us”). Ogden argues that this is true...

..., which human reason provides for its own direction, are instances of a more general demand of reason, which Kant formulates thus: P : Find for the conditioned cognitions of the understanding the unconditioned whereby its [that is, the understanding’s] unity...

... sets of philosophical issues raised by or implicit in Descartes’s work: the nature of a machine (chapter 4), the role of simulation in Descartes’s physiology (chap- ter 5), and the sorts of unity that may or may not be attributable to Cartesian organisms (chapter 6). As Des Chene is the first...

...” (A69/B94). Thinking is “cognition through concepts” (A69/B94). Concepts rest on functions, and a function is “the unity of the action of ordering different representations together under a common one” (A68/B93). Putting this together, we get the idea that the role of the understanding is to order...

.... And the characterization of a causal profile typically invokes relations of both synchronic and diachronic unity; it invokes the former when it speaks of how the instantiation of a property combines with instantiations of other properties to produce certain effects (since the “combining with” involves...

... demand of self-conscious- ness, must be able to accompany all my representations. Though the neces- sary relation of all representations to the identical ‘I think’ reveals a necessary unity among representations that holds universally (not merely “for me it is nevertheless not clear, perhaps, how...

... Horstmann next investigates more closely the early philosophies of Fichte and Schelling, stressing their continuity with Kant through their shared belief in the “unity of reason” as well as their objections to Kant’s dualisms. In their view, those dualisms had the effect of undermining this unity...

... of their to-read list. There are many questions to ask about this final move, which is clearly central to Kraus’s project. Here I’ll just raise one. I wonder about the central role Kraus gives the idea of “harmony” in Kant’s account of our mental life. She does cautiously warn that “unity” and “harmony...

... that leads to their being thinkable, namely, recognizable under common concepts, were going on in our minds” (29–30). The enabling ground of “I →  SY” and “SY →  I” is what Kant calls “the transcendental unity of apperception” (31). Importantly, transcendental apperception is not only a formal necessary...