Does the Knowing Mind Shape the World?

Kant: Does the Knowing Mind Shape the World? Second Part. 1. "Kant gives three arguments by which he tries to prove that space is not a concept we get by observing objects outside us, but is, instead, a single unified system that we must have in our minds even before we observe any objects outside of us“..- Summarize those three arguments in your own words. 'Do you think those arguments are right? Why?" (Velasquez, p- 388-) 2. According to Kant, every single object we perceive now or in the future has to be in space and time. What reasons does he provide for this claim?" (Velasquez, p. 388.) 3. 'Kant says the space you see aromd yourself is rally all in your mind, and that your mind creates the illusion that space is outside yourself- Does this make sense to you? Do you think it could be true? To get a sense of what Kant means, imagine a video game in which you wear goggles that put tiny video screens in front of each of your eyes, The screen produces a three-dimensional image so that to you it looks as if you are standing on an alien planet with galaxies swirling over-head..- Do you think it might be possible for your mind to do what goggles like this can do? How wodd the experience of wearing such glasses be different from the experience of having you mind create the illusion that space is outside you?" (Velasquez, 389). 4. Explain Kant's transcendental principle of unity. (Velasquez, 392) 5. "According to Kant, our minds have to create a single interconnected world of objects out of the many different sensations streaming from our senses. Explain why Kant says ow minds have to do this. Does his argument seem right to you? Why?‘6. "Kant says that any events that we experience as events that are happening outside of us have to be causally connected to other events outside of us. Explain the arguments Kant gives for this claim. How do Kant's example of a ship and of a house help him in his argument? " (Velasquez, 393) 7. 'Kant claims that he answered several of the challenges Hume proposed. Kant said he showed Hume was wrong when he said we have no justification for assuming the future will be like the past He showed Hune was wrong when he said that causes and effects are all in your minds, not in the world we perceive outside of ourselves-.. Explain how Kant showed that Hume was wrong on each of these points-“ (Velasquez, 395) 8. Kant concludes that we can obtain only knowledge of appearances (phenomena) and never of the way things actually are (noumena). Does this make him a skeptic? If not, what distinguishes his views from skepticism?" (Velasquez, 396)