Reply to Breitenbach

I want to thank Angela Breitenbach for taking the time to read and review my book Kant's Organicism. I found her remarks insightful and indeed helpful for honing in on the central challenge facing any epigenesist reading of Kant's theory of mind. As Breitenbach rightly asks at the outset of Section 2 of her commentary, 'what is the status of this [epigenetic] model' for Kant? If it is functioning as something other than an analogy for him, how should we understand it? Apart from this question regarding the status of epigenesis as a model for Kant's theory of cognition, Breitenbach is also worried that I have 'not sufficiently explored' or developed enough my claim that the epigenesis of reason is metaphysically but not biologically real according to Kant. Regarding this latter point, I think that Breitenbach is in fact right, and so I appreciate the opportunity here to better lay out the problem as I saw it when I was writing the book.