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Daniel Smyth is the author of “Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense” (Cambridge University Press 2024), a major new study of Kant’s theory of intuition. The book offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Kant’s account across its different forms—divine, sensible, and human—while addressing the striking tension between the finitude of sense perception and Kant’s claim that intuition can represent the infinite. Smyth develops an original “apperceptive” interpretation on which intuition functions as the indispensable cognitive partner of a discursive intellect.
Ranging across philosophical methodology, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of mathematics, the work has been widely praised for its innovation, rigour, and depth. It was awarded the 2025 Henry Allison Senior Scholar Book Prize by the North American Kant Society and the 2025 Book Award from the American Philosophical Association.