Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Critical Essays

by Kitcher, Patricia; Allison, Harry; Ameriks, Karl; Beck, Lewis White; Falkenstein, Lorne; Guyer, Paul; Kitcher, Philip; Parsons, Charles; Strawson, P F.; Wood, Allen W.

• ISBN13: 9780847689163
• ISBN10: 0847689166
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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? and 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. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(12)
Acknowledgments	xix
1 Kant's A Priori Framework	1	(20)
Philip Kitcher
2 Was Kant a Nativist?	21	(24)
Lorne Falkenstein
3 Infinity and Kant's Conception of the "Possibility of Experience"	45	(14)
Charles Parsons
4 Kant's Cognitive Self	59	(26)
Patricia Kitcher
5 Kant's Transcendental Deduction as a Regressive Argument	85	(18)
Karl Ameriks
6 Did the Sage of Konigsberg Have No Dreams?	103	(14)
Lewis White Beck
7 Kant's Second Analogy: Objects, Events and Causal Laws	117	(28)
Paul Guyer
8 The Metaphysics of Transcendental Idealism [partial], from The Bounds of Sense	145	(36)
P.F. Strawson
9 An Introduction to the Problem, and Transcendental Realism and Transcendental Idealism, from Kant's Transcendental Idealism	181	(38)
Henry Allison
10 Projecting the Order of Nature	219	(20)
Philip Kitcher
11 Kant's Compatibilism	239	(26)
Allen W. Wood
12 Kant's Critique of the Three Theistic Proofs [partial], from Kant's Rational Theology	265	(18)
Allen W. Wood
Annotated Bibliography	283	(8)
Index	291	(8)
About the Authors	299