One more PS. The following is one of the conclusions that PF Strawson (in "The Bounds of Sense") reaches in his critical commentary on Kant’s first Critique. It is the direction I am going with my MA thesis. My hope is to confirm Stanley Cavell’s conclusion that Ralph Waldo Emerson was a first rate philosopher. I shall compare Strawson/Kant’s views of the philosopher with Cavell/Emerson’s and then compare both with Nelson Goodman. Wish me luck.

Until then, it is the following indication of a holism that I find consistent with McDowell’s rehabilitation of Kant and is my preference to panentheism as well as (but I’ve only skimmed him) Griffin’s non-supernatural process theology. (As mentioned earlier, I’m in over my head.)

"Once transcendental idealism has been laid aside, there is no obstacle to accepting Nature or the world-whole itself - empirically unconditioned existence, all-embracing reality - as the object of such an attitude. How could inquiring human reason find a more appropriate object for its admiring and humbly emulative devotion than that which is at once the inexhaustible topic of its questions and the source of its endlessly provisional answers ? For human reason itself is part of Nature. In a few paragraphs towards the end of the Dialectic (A 699-701/B 727-9 231) Kant seems even to show some sympathy with this conception, or with a part of it; though any fully developed view of this kind, such as Spinoza’s, would certainly be alien to his thought and perhaps morally repulsive to  him. If only in respect of economy, such a conception may perhaps be judged superior to Kant’s "as if theology"; but the saving (of the super-sensible) is not, of course, one that an upholder of transcendental idealism can make. It must finally be said, setting aside transcendental idealism, that it is hard, from the point of view of the interests of reason, to see anything in the thought of an extra-mundane world-directing intelligence which contains the "therefore for every wherefore" but the pardonable indulgence of a kind of fatigue of reason, a temporary reversion to a primitive and comforting model.xxx"