Paul Abela presents a powerful, experience-sensitive form of realism about the relation between mind and world, based on an innovative interpretation of Kant. Abela breaks with tradition in taking seriously Kant's claim that his Transcendental Idealism yields a form of empirical realism, and giving a realist analysis of major themes of the Critique of Pure Reason. Abela's blending of Kantian scholarship with contemporary epistemology offers a new way of resolving philosophical debates about realism.

• 1: Empirical Realism and the Priority of Judgement


• 2: Judgement and Empirical Intuition


• 3: Judgement and the Manifold of Appearance


• 4: Truth and the Constraint of Possible Experience


• 5: The Role of the Ideal of Systemacity: A Realist Interpretation


• Bibliography, Index

Paul Abela is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Acadia University, Nova Scotia.