Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Critical Essays

Patricia Kitcher

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 1998
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781461638469
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: what can we know and how can we know it? What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments, and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those themes and arguments.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Kant’s A Priori Framework
• 2 Was Kant a Nativist?
• 3 Infinity and Kant’s Conception of the “Possibility of Experience”
• 4 Kant’s Cognitive Self
• 5 Kant’s Transcendental Deduction as a Regressive Argument
• 6 Did the Sage of Königsberg Have No Dreams?
• 7 Kant’s Second Analogy: Objects, Events and Causal Laws
• 8 The Metaphysics of Transcendental Idealism [partial], from The Bounds of Sense
• 9 An Introduction to the Problem, and Transcendental Realism and Transcendental Idealism, from Kant’s Transcendental Idealism
• 10 Projecting the Order of Nature
• 11 Kant’s Compatibilism
• 12 Kant’s Critique of the Three Theistic Proofs [partial], from Kant’s Rational Theology
• Annotated Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors