ABSTRACT
Kant's philosophy has rightly been viewed as conflicting with standard philosophical-naturalist outlooks, yet also as a source of inspiration for competing conceptions of more ‘liberal’ or non-reductive naturalisms. This chapter focuses on what I contend are certain a priori yet naturalistic dimensions of Kant's own theoretical philosophy in the first Critique. Starting from some core preservable insights, despite its many critics, in Strawson's ‘Unity and Objectivity’ interpretation of the transcendental deduction, I argue for a conception of Kant's method of abstraction from, followed by the re-embedding of, successively enriched nested necessary conditions on experience that serves to highlight the regulatively naturalist character of Kant's open-ended empirical realist conception of nature and our own embodied place within it.
