Did Kant have the concept of knowledge that we are born with, which nonetheless is contingent on how the world happens to be?
I am not sure how much he has this. He grants that his philosophy applies to humans, not to other possible minds (e.g. God); it’s a contingent fact that, unlike God, we don’t produce things just by conceiving of them. And since he thinks spacetime is non-analytic, he grants that in a sense it “could” be otherwise, it’s just that that “could” counterfactual structure must branch before we get empirical observations. But he doesn’t much discuss the historical origins of why we have a human-like world representation, he just notes that we must have had one to some extent before we got sense-data. A possible materialist criticism of this model is that we can learn about these pre-empirical world structures through empirical psychology research on other minds, not just by making backwards (“transcendental”) inferences from the world representation that we presently have and can access introspectively.
I am not sure how much he has this. He grants that his philosophy applies to humans, not to other possible minds (e.g. God); it’s a contingent fact that, unlike God, we don’t produce things just by conceiving of them. And since he thinks spacetime is non-analytic, he grants that in a sense it “could” be otherwise, it’s just that that “could” counterfactual structure must branch before we get empirical observations. But he doesn’t much discuss the historical origins of why we have a human-like world representation, he just notes that we must have had one to some extent before we got sense-data. A possible materialist criticism of this model is that we can learn about these pre-empirical world structures through empirical psychology research on other minds, not just by making backwards (“transcendental”) inferences from the world representation that we presently have and can access introspectively.