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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi
The Search for Knowledge
Kantian Constructivism

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1

Kant's revolution in epistemology centers around the claim that objects must conform to the structure of our knowledge rather than vice versa.
2

Kant calls things-in-themselves as they exist independent of the conditions of our experience noumena and things-as-they-appear-to-us .
3

The understanding is the active power in experience, while the is the passive power, according to Kant.
4

In Kant's philosophy the twelve of the understanding are the pure concepts contributed by the understanding to shape the structure of experience.
5

Kant believes we can have knowledge of phenomena but we cannot have knowledge of .








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