DEBATE: Response to McWherter

Assiter, Alison

Abstract

© W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2015. This contribution to a debate with Dustin McWherter evaluates his claim that Kant is a ‘non-ontologist’ or an ‘anti-ontologist’ and challenges one specific consequence which McWherter argues follows from this attribution to Kant. I argue that, while it is true that Kant restricts the domain of ‘objects’ or ‘appearances’ as he calls them to what is knowable, this does not make him an ‘anti-ontologist’.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Journal: Journal of Critical Realism
• Print ISSN: 1476-7430
• Electronic ISSN: 1572-5138
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 508-517
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/1476743015Z.00000000080
• Keywords: McWherter
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/840739
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1476743015Z.00000000080