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This chapter aims to put Saul Kripke's formulation of Wittgensteinian rule-following paradox in the context of Kant's critical philosophy. I attempt to argue that a thorough re-examination of the Kantian critique can contribute to our better understanding of this paradox, because Kant himself strove to overcome a parallel form of scepticism—Hume's. Moreover, I seek to demonstrate that Kantian views on normativity may contribute to avoiding the consequences of "Kripkenstein"'s radicalism without a simultaneous refutation of its main premises. Taking the interlinking between Hume's and Kripkenstein's thinking for a starting point, I attempt to reformulate Kantian arguments against Humean scepticism so that they could be applied to Kripkenstein's paradox. These reflections are organised around two main ideas of Kant's Critique: (1) arguments against the assumption of discontinuity of time; (2) the existence of two formal instances guaranteeing the coherence of experience: namely the "thing-in-itself" and the transcendental unity of apperception (TUA). Reassessment of the Kantian concept of the TUA gives an opportunity to propose a new perspective on normativity, whose core mechanism would lie in our readiness to correct ourselves. Finally, I juxtapose "Kripkenstein" and "Kantstein"—the latter being Kripke's imaginary opponent, who accepts some premises of the rule-following paradox, yet puts them in a broader context which explains our effective usage of rules.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09375-8_6

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