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    Richard Aquila

    contemporaryAnalytic Kantian Scholarship

    b. 1944

    Richard E. Aquila is an American philosopher specializing in Kant and early modern philosophy, best known for his detailed interpretive work on the Critique of Pure Reason. He has contributed significantly to debates on Kantian representation, intentionality, and transcendental idealism.

    Notable Achievements

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    Authored Matter in Mind: A Study of Kant's Transcendental Deduction

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    Authored Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge

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    Advanced influential interpretations of Kantian intentionality and representation

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    Contributed critical commentary on Henry Allison's reading of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

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    Long tenure as professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee

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    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

    Modality & Possibility

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    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

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