{"product_id":"kantian-humility-9780198236535","title":"Kantian Humility","description":"\u003cp\u003eRae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Kant says that phenomena--things as we know them--consist 'entirely of relations', by which he means forces. His claim that we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility: we have no knowledge of the intrinsic properties of substances. This humility has its roots in some plausible philosophical beliefs: an empiricist belief in the receptivity of human knowledge and a metaphysical belief in the irreducibility of relational properties. Langton's interpretation vindicates Kant's scientific realism, and shows his primary\/secondary quality distinction to be superior even to modern-day competitors. And it answers the famous charge that Kant's tale of things in themselves is one that makes itself untellable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rae Langton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573411971133,"sku":"9780198236535","price":210.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780198236535.jpg?v=1788521618","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/kantian-humility-9780198236535","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}