Transcendental semantics extended: comments on Loparic

Abstract

In “The Problems of Pure Reason and Transcendental Semantics,” Zeljko Loparic argues that we not only can but should interpret Kant’s transcendental idealism as transcendental semantics, and then he also provides some specific examples of this approach to Kantinterpretation. What I would like to do in these brief comments is, first, to sketch and motivate the very idea of a semantic interpretation of Kant’s transcendental idealism, and then second, to raise two pairs of friendly questions about the extension of the semantic interpretation to Kant’s ethics in particular, as a way of inviting Professor Loparic to elaborate some of his basic claims further.