1. P: "Leaving Nature Behind" in Smith 2002Okay, I made that last one up. Some heady stuff there! You may want to skim the B Deduction first. (There's an oxymoron for you: "skim the B Deduction".)
2. M: "Responses" in Smith 2002
3. P: "Postscript"
4. M: "On Pippin's Postscript"
5. P: "McDowell's Germans"
6. M: "Oh yeah? Sez you! (Pbbbbbt!)"
Here's a taste from #4, where McDowell lays it on the line:
The result of [what he's just been saying] is no longer Kantian in any but the thinnest sense. But that is no threat to anything I think. My proposal — whose shape I took from Pippin — was that we can understand at least some aspects of Hegelian thinking in terms of a radicalization of Kant. The radicalization need not be accessible to someone who would still be recognizably Kant. It is enough if there is a way to arrive at a plausibly Hegelian stance by reflecting on the upshot of the Deduction. It is no problem for this that, as I am suggesting, this reflection undermines the very need for a Transcendental Deduction — provided such a result emerges intelligibly from considering what is promising and what is unsatisfactory in Kant’s effort.
3 comments:
Pippin's postscript also appears in, and was written for, his collection The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath, CUP 2005. (Since you're providing bibliographic material for the first two.)
(Just went to Pippin's page: how bizarre that he has scans from TPoS, and deliberately didnt' include the postscript!
Actually, the version of "Leaving Nature Behind" on the site is the original one from Smith 2002 (which I have right here, so I'm sure; plus it has his name on it, which the TPoS version surely doesn't). Thanks for the book reference for the postscript, which I should have provided (he mentions something about "the theme of this book" and it would help to know which book that is).
As of last week, in fact, the postscript was missing, so I emailed him (!) to "complain" (nicely), and he said he would put it up too. The original article was already there. (It's labeled as being from TPoS, but it's actually Smith.)
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