Remarks on Sutherland, Kant’s Mathematical World

The main idea in Daniel Sutherland’s Kant’s Mathematical World is a strong claim about the immanence of mathematics in the world: Mathematics is literally true of objects of experience because it conditions the possibility of experience, and thereby the objects of experience. Sutherland grounds this claim on an insightful treatment of the general theory of magnitude that outlines constraints on magnitude’s representation. That representational task also gives rise to a regress problem, which Sutherland addresses by appeal to continuous successive synthesis. The result bears on recent debates between conceptualist and non-conceptualist readings of Kant’s theory of cognition.