495 150 ANALYTICAL CONTENTS Contents vii Acknowledgements vii Note on Sources and Citations ix 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 Hegel an Epistemologist? 1 2 Kant’s Critical Philosophy: A Synopsis 9 2.1 Kant’s Critical Fallibilism 9 2.2 Key Features of Rational Judgment 10 2.3 Judgment and Cognitive Reference 11 2.4 Kant’s Three-fold Strategy 13 2.5 Kant’s Methodological Constructivism 14 2.6 Transcendental Proof and Transcendental Idealism 15 3 Kant’s Critical Philosophy Outlined 16 3.1 Kant’s Key Questions 16 3.2 Kant’s Main Critical Writings 17 3.3 Kant’s Main Critical Problems 18 3.4 Kant’s System of Critical Philosophy 20 PART I Hegel’s Critical Reconsiderations of Metaphysics and Epistemology 2 HENRY HARRIS AND THE SPIRIT OF HEGEL’S 1807 PHENOMENOLOGY 25 4 Introduction 25 5 Harris, Hegel and Philosophical History 25 6 Harris and Hermeneutical Method 28 7 Harris on Hegel’s Epistemology 32 8 Harris’ Epistemological Shortcomings 33 9 Some Critical Reservations about Hegel’s Ladder 34 9.1 Harris, Hegel and Perception 34 9.2 Harris, Hegel and ‘The Moral World View’ 36 10 Harris, Epistemology and Hermeneutical Method 38 11 Hegel’s References to Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism 40 12 The Problem of Assessing Standards of Knowledge 45 13 Distinguishing Recollection from mere Imagination 48 14 Dialectic, Justification and Hermeneutical Method 53 15 Coda: Some Brief Replies to Harris 56 3 IDEALISM: TRANSCENDENTAL OR ABSOLUTE? 57 16 Introduction 57 17 Some Critical Questions 59 18 Does Hegel’s Absolute Idealism Develop out of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism? 60 19 Does Hegel Retain the Model of an Intuitive Intellect? 63 496 20 Transcendental Idealism, Scientia and Hegel’s Absolute Idealism 64 21 Some Basic Features of Hegel’s Mature Idealism 66 22 The Costs of neglecting Hegel’s Introduction to the 1807 Phenomenology 73 23 Do Transcendental Idealism or Intellectual Intuition Illuminate Hegel’s Mature Philosophy? 74 24 Conclusion 75 4 HEGEL’S EARLY CRITIQUE OF KANT’S CRITICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS 77 25 Introduction 77 26 The Role of the Foundations in Kant’s Critical System 77 27 Hegel’s Early Critique of Kant’s Foundations 79 28 Three Internal Problems with Kant’s Foundations 80 28.1 Kant’s Flawed Proof of Matter’s Basic Forces 80 28.2 Kant’s Circular Account of Matter’s Quantity 81 28.3 Why Forces Transcend Kant’s Critical Analysis 82 28.3.1 Kant’s Flawed Proof of Newton’s Law of Inertia 82 28.3.2 Kant’s Flawed Disproof of Hylozoism 83 29 The Ramifications of these Problems for Kant’s First Critique 86 29.1 Kant’s Table of Categories as a Groundplan for Rational Physics 86 29.2 External Causation and Kant’s Analogies of Experience 86 5 THE TRANSCENDENTAL, FORMAL AND MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE ‘I THINK’ 89 30 Introduction 89 31 Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Sensory Affinity 89 32 Kant’s Transcendental Idealist Explanation of Sensory Affinity 91 33 Kant’s Fatal Equivocation 93 34 Hegel’s Recognition of Kant’s Problem with Transcendental Affinity 95 34.1 Some Interpretive Difficulties 95 34.2 Traces of the Problem of Transcendental Affinity in Hegel’s Early Writings 96 35 Implications of Kant’s Problems with Transcendental Affinity 99 36 Appendix: Evidence of Hegel’s Awareness of Kant’s Issue of Transcendental Affinity 106 6 THE FATE OF ‘THE’ INTUITIVE INTELLECT IN HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY 109 37 Intellectual Intuitions and Intuitive Intellects 109 38 Aconceptual Intuitionism in Schelling’s and Hegel’s Early Views 112 39 Hegel’s Youthful Neglect of Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic 113 40 In Principle, Intellectual Intuition entails Petitio Principii 114 41 Hegel’s Reconsideration of the Problem of Petitio Principii 115 42 Hegel’s Critique of Schelling’s Intuitionism in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy 122 7 HEGEL’S POST-KANTIAN EPISTEMOLOGICAL REORIENTATION 127 43 Hegel’s Co-determination Thesis 127 44 Hegel’s Post-Kantian Reorientation 130.