3. David Hume's Fork and Immanuel Kant's Synthetic A Priori

[Laloser05]

Excellent explanation! You've helped me understand where Kant tried to improve on Hume's work cheers!

[StereotypicalItalian]

Hey Dr Campbell, do you think definite parallels could be drawn between Kants Synthetic A Priori and The Socratic Paradox. In Meno, Socrates states that ''we are recalling information from a past life'' This could definitely be seen as saying that we have some inbuilt ability to perceive reality, independent of actually experiencing any particular reality or situation.

[irelandsgreatest]

Big thanks for puttin this up and explaining it so clearly, you've done me a massive favour.

[blacksaladrainbow]

if, according to Kant, the categories of the sensibility (space and time) come from the human mind, wouldn't that make the existence of the external world subjective as it depends on the human mind??

[elendiel]

@blacksaladrainbow In a sense, yes - the "external world" as we know it (spacio-temporal) is our subjective construct. However, we can never know anything about the real external world (Ding an sich). My opinion is - when you can never know anything about something, you might as well say, that it doesn't exist (for you) - much like Berkeley did.

[crazyshowjumper28]

This is amazing!! thankyou so so so so much I never understood humes fork and now I do thankyou!

[ja3deah]

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[burso772]

you had my full attention until u used a box as an example! lol but great vid!

[tenseman08]

I find Kant a relatively difficult philosopher to understand

[wictionful]

Thank you so mutch for this post it has helped me to understand Hume and Kant much better.

[freetaught]

Where you gave the analogy of the box, I found the most insight. Yes! It seems to be a failure of the mind and not the object. Nice wording!

[drjasonjcampbell]

@freetaught Thanks...you got the point exactly! The limitation is not one that should be imposed on the structures of the external world, rather, in this example it is our own cognitive limitation. 

[29pou]

Hello Dr Campbell, thank you for this amazing video, just wanted to ask though the constructs of the mind are a priori means "it is it is something which is known without the reference taken from this world"; do you think that constructs of mind are build without any help from the real world?

[drjasonjcampbell]

@Watea8 Sure, no problem...glad to help. peace. 

[jgTHRASH]

Thanks a lot dr. this helped a lot.

[Shaewaros]

Thank you for the explanation, this really helped me to understand Kant's synthetic a priori. Really well and clearly explained. =)

[itsmerizwan]

Dr. Campbell you are a legend!

Had to write an essay about Free Will vs Determinsim and this helped immensly in my argument and getting my head around the terms and ideas. I even quoted you.

Wish I had you as my philosophy lecturer...you make it all comprehensible.

Cheers!

[drjasonjcampbell]

@itsmerizwan Brilliant! I'm here to help do my part. Thanks for watching. Peace.

[ParrhesiaJoe]

Very good... Thank you, Dr. Campbell

[bazzazcl]

Well toast won't toast because it's already toast.

[drjasonjcampbell]

@bazzazcl lol! touche, well said. maybe "toastier"

[bazzazcl]

@drjasonjcampbell That's more like it. Oh, and you missed sophistry and illusion off the fork. Good video though.

[dqcelli]

Thank you so much!

[BigBagsForRent]

You just blew my mind.

[gartlove]

This is great. Thank you!!

[alexaooo]

This is helpful but isnt 'every event has a cause' synthetic a priori?

[Trusko100]

Very nice video, i have enjoyed watching it Dr Jason Campbell. But one thing i would not have done and that is using the orange box as an example to explain Kant's possibility of making synthetical a-priori knowledge. I would have used, like Kant did, the example of mathematics. We still are able to know a-priori that 1+1=2 but we are not able to know the outcome of 177899965544+66546788990 without verification on synthetical way.

Kind regards from Belgium.

[Danielhjrothman]

Thanks Dr Campbell, very helpful video. May just help me through my exam on A pirori knowledge.... Peace

[samgoldnygaard]

very helpful video

[Steve2323ZX]

awesome video. I liked your analogy of raw sense data as like 1's and 0's to a computer

[drjasonjcampbell]

@Steve2323ZX Thanks Steve, glad to help. Peace.

[JM121090]

Thanks for posting this, I'm writing an essay on an article about Kant's refutation of atheism and I was trying to connect synthetic a priori to that. Thanks to you I was able to fully explain my point well.

[drjasonjcampbell]

Glad to help. Peace.

[contemplativegirl21]

I'm glad to see a fellow philosopher contributing his knowledge to youtube!

I'm currently working on my M.A. May I ask where you did your Ph.D. work?

[drjasonjcampbell]

University of South Florida in Tampa...thanks for watching :-)

[soultorment27]

@drjasonjcampbell

do you reject naive realism?

[drjasonjcampbell]

@soultorment27 I'll paraphrase G.E. Moore, My left hand is proof of the external world. Genius. No i don't deny naive realism (depending on what specific form ur referencing). Kant's noumena is ridiculous. All that exists are perceptions and that IS reality. There is nothing more to our existence than observable and verifiable perceptions. I would make room for idealism though, in a very diluted form because I personally haven't been convinced that emotions can be described pharmacologically.

[truefreedoOm]

@drjasonjcampbell Kant is quite difficult to read, thx to you i finally grasped the idea behind these categories thx Jason :-)

[bhigr]

@drjasonjcampbell All that exists are preceptions? How do you know our interpretation of the real world via categories and space/time IS the real world. If you can't prove this, then you must remain agnostic to the question, what the real word IS in and of itself. That is precisely Kant's position. Denying the thing in itself leads to rejection of an independent external world, absolute idealism. Are you a fundamentalist idealist? Moore isn't? So whose point of view is ridiculous here?

[dimecollector1]

These videos were all excellent and explained the concept of Hume's fork excellently. I have an examination on Hume's Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact as well as the distinction between a posteriori and a priori this week and this will go a long way in clarifying my terms. I really have to say that last diagram was excellent. Thank you very much and keep these videos coming!

[Magarmach09]

great vidoe thanks sir

philosophy hon 2 year student india new delhi hindu college delhi university

[drjasonjcampbell]

You're welcome...best of luck with your studies.