Transcendental Idealism: A Proposal

Kant holds that (1) his theory of transcendental idealism does not imply that our experiences are systematically illusory, that (2) appearances are not numerically distinct from things as they are in themselves, and that (3) his idealism is, in some important sense, idealist. In this paper, I produce a reading of transcendental idealism that accounts for each of these claims. I recommend that we m…