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: 9780847689170
• ISBN10: 0847689174
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-13
• 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
Acknowledgments
Kant's A Priori Framework	p. 1
Was Kant a Nativist?	p. 21
Infinity and Kant's Conception of the "Possibility of Experience"	p. 45
Kant's Cognitive Self	p. 59
Kant's Transcendental Deduction as a Regressive Argument	p. 85
Did the Sage of Konigsberg Have No Dreams?	p. 103
Kant's Second Analogy: Objects, Events and Causal Laws	p. 117
The Metaphysics of Transcendental Idealism [partial], from The Bounds of Sense	p. 145
An Introduction to the Problem, and Transcendental Realism and Transcendental Idealism, from Kant's Transcendental Idealism	p. 181
Projecting the Order of Nature	p. 219
Kant's Compatibilism	p. 239
Kant's Critique of the Three Theistic Proofs [partial], from Kant's Rational Theology	p. 265
Annotated Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 291
About the Authors	p. 299
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