ABSTRACT
Kant himself understood his conception as an answer to a situation which he experienced as dramatic and unusual: there are no universally valid foundations, no objective methods, and no universally accepted criteria. On the basis of this diagnosis Kant recommends seemingly radical measures. He recommends an investigation prior to philosophy proper, a pre-investigation in the form of a critique of reason, of an essentially reflexive discipline, which Kant explicitly understands not as a usual theoretical discipline but as a theoretical investigation of reason from a practical point of view. Transcendental-Pragmatics is a conception which tries to combine central ideas of pragmatism and neo-pragmatism with a new kind of transcendental philosophy. Transcendental-Pragmatics starts with the assumption that radical fallibilism, historicism, and holism are right, that is that there is no knowledge in the strong sense available at all.
