Jacob Sigismund Beck’s Standpunctslehre and the Kantian Thing-in-itself Debate

The author has obtained a Bachelor degree in Law (LL.B) from the College of Management in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1998 and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Haifa, Israel, in 2012. He received the Rotenstreich Fellowship for exceptional Doctoral students. With the support of the Minerva Fellowship, the author has been a guest of the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin between 2010-2011. He published several articles relating to the interpretation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism and is currently working on the Neo-Kantian debate in Germany during the 19th century between psychologism and normativism.

• Part I.- 1.Introduction.- Part II - Kant's transcendental idealism and the notion of the thing-in-itself.- 2. The subjective conditions of objectivity.- 3. The seemingly inevitable roles of the thing-in-itself.- Part III - Jacob Sigismund Beck's Standpunctslehre.- 4. The development of Beck’s thought, leading up to the publication of the einzig möglicher Standpunct.- 5. The problem of the bond between a representation and its object.- 6. The requisiteness of resolving the problem of the bond between a representation and its object, for making intelligible the critique’s main concepts and distinctions.- 7. The highest principle of philosophy – the postulate to represent originally.- 8. Original representing and the categories.- 9. Synthetic and analytic unity of consciousness.- 10. Original representing and practical philosophy.- Part IV - Beck's Standpunctslehre in relation to Kant's original doctrine.- 11. The relation between sensibility and the understanding.- 12. The relation between a representation and its object.- 13. The thing-in-itself and practical philosophy.- Part V.- 14. Epilogue.- A short biography of J. S. Beck.- Index.