Absolute Time: The Limit of Kant's Idealism. (9th September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stan, Marius
• Is Part Of: Noûs. Volume 53:Number 2(2019:Jun.)
• Page Start: 433
• Page End: 461
• Publication Date: 2017-09-09
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1111/nous.12229
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0029-4624

Abstract

Abstract: I examine here if Kant can explain our knowledge of duration by showing that time has metric structure. To do so, I spell out two possible solutions: time's metric could be intrinsic or extrinsic. I argue that Kant's resources are too weak to secure any intrinsic, transcendentally‐based temporal metrics; but he can supply an extrinsic metric, based in a metaphysical fact about matter. I conclude that Transcendental Idealism is incomplete: it cannot account for the durative aspects of experience—or it can do so only with help from a non‐trivial metaphysics of material substance.