Publisher's Synopsis
This is a highly original, unorthodox and wide-ranging discourse on the idea of philosophy contained in Kant's Critique. The author contends that Kant, in rejecting the traditional way of doing philosophy, was proposing a paradigm shift comparable in magnitude to Copernicus's overthrow of the Ptolemaic view of the cosmos. Kant however was not successful in establishing his idea of philosophy as the new paradigm and the old view is still present in many comtemporary versions. The author argues in favour of Kant's position which he characterises as entailing the view that the role of philosophy is to offer a plausible story about how objectivity might be grounded in certain principles of coherence of our mental states.
