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On the Other Hand...: A Reconsideration of Kant, Incongruent Counterparts, and Absolute Space

In James Van~Cleve & Robert E. Frederick (eds.), The Philosophy of Right and Left: Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 235--255 (1991)

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Handedness, self-models and embodied cognitive content.Holger Lyre - 2008 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (4):529–538.details The paper presents and discusses the “which-is-which content of handedness,” the meaning of left as left and right as right, as a possible candidate for the idea of a genuine embodied cognitive content. After showing that the Ozma barrier, the non-transferability of the meaning of left and right, provides a kind of proof of the non-descriptive, indexical nature of the which-is-which content of handedness, arguments are presented which suggest that the classical representationalist account of cognition faces a perplexing problem of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Metaphysik im “Handumdrehen” – Kant und Earman, Parität und moderne Raumauffassung.Holger Lyre - 2005 - Philosophia Naturalis 42 (1):49-76.details In 1768 Immanuel Kant presented an argument showing the necessity of absolute space, i.e. substantivalism in contrast to relationalism, based on the property of handedness. While there is large consensus about the fallacy of Kant’s argument, a more recent debate exists – mainly stimulated by John Earman – about the status of the Kantian argument in view of modern physics and its fundamentally built-in parity violation, which leads to a preferred handedness. According to Earman the relationalist has no means to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
The aims and method of Kant's 1768 Gegenden im Raume essay in the light of Euler's 1748 Reflexions sur l'espace.David Walford - 1999 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (2):305 – 332.details Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
A remark on Kant's argument from incongruent counterparts.Jeremy Byrd - 2008 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (4):789 – 800.details I argue that, by the time of his essay "Concerning the Ultimate Ground of the Differentiation of Directions in Space" (1768), Kant had come to question the status of the Principle of Sufficient Reason as a result, at least in part, of his recognition of the existence of incongruent counterparts. Though Kant's argument against absolute space based on the existence of incongruent counterparts has been much discussed in recent years, its importance as a useful benchmark by which to judge the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Kant's hands and Earman's pions: Chirality arguments for substantival space.Carl Hoefer - 2000 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14 (3):237 – 256.details This paper outlines a new interpretation of an argument of Kant's for the existence of absolute space. The Kant argument, found in a 1768 essay on topology, argues for the existence of Newtonian-Euclidean absolute space on the basis of the existence of incongruous counterparts (such as a left and a right hand, or any asymmetrical object and its mirror-image). The clear, intrinsic difference between a left hand and a right hand, Kant claimed, cannot be understood on a relational view of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 19 citations

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