Lucy Allais. In Defense of Kant's Transcendental Idealism. (Book Review Allais L. Manifest Reality. Kant’s Idealism and his Realism. Oxford University Press (UK), 2015, 329 pp. ISBN 9780198747130)

Abstract

In a review of the book “Manifest Reality. Kant's Idealism and his Realism” I present Lucy Allais's moderate metaphysical interpretation of Kant's transcendental idealism. An overview of the structure of the book acquaints the reader with the author's argumentation strategy. Allais criticizes the dominant interpretations of Kant's transcendental idealism and reveals their contradictions. Further, she develops her own interpretation of Kant's position, combining realism and idealism, metaphysical and epistemological judgments. Intuition plays a central role in the elicited epistemological contrast between intuition and concepts, and between intuition and sensation.