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Baking with Kant and Bradley

Thomas, Emily; Leech, Jessica

Authors

Jessica Leech



Abstract

This paper compares the views of Kant and F.H. Bradley on the nature of judgment or experience. We argue that, while there are many differences between their idealist systems, Kant and Bradley agree on a basic issue: there is a sense in which a whole judgment or experience is prior to its parts. Through the extended metaphor of cake baking, we show that for Kant there is an important sense in which a judgment --in spite of resulting from the synthesis of a manifold --is prior to its parts; and, for Bradley, immediate experience is prior to the very notion of parts. Kant and Bradley disagree over the nature of the idealist cake, but they agree that the cake is prior to its slices.

Citation

Thomas, E., & Leech, J. (2013). Baking with Kant and Bradley. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 19(1), 75-94

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2013-01
Deposit Date Oct 21, 2016
Journal Collingwood and British Idealism Studies
Print ISSN 1744-9413
Publisher Imprint Academic
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 19
Issue 1
Pages 75-94
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1395098
Publisher URL http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/col/2013/00000019/00000001/art00004