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Klappentext Cambridge University Press is committed to keeping scholarly work in print for as long as possible. A short print-run of this academic paperback has been produced using digital technology. Zusammenfassung An account of the development and structure of central arguments of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" in the defence of the objective validity of such categories as substance! causation and independent existence. The author aims to place his critique in an historical context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Notes on sources; Introduction; Part I. Kant's Early View: 1. The problem of objective validity; 2. The transcendental theory of experience: 1774-1775; Part II. The Transcendental Deduction from 1781 to 1787: 3. The real premises of the deduction; 4. The deduction from knowledge of objects; 5. The deduction and aperception; Part III. The Principles of Empirical Knowledge: 6. The schematism and system of principles; 7. Axioms and anticipations; 8. The general principle of the analogies; 9. The first analogy: substance; 10. The second analogy: causation; 11. The third analogy: interaction; Part IV. The Refutation of Idealism: 12. The problem, project, and promise of the refutation; 13. The central arguments of the refutation; 14. The metaphysics of the refutation; Part V. Transcendental Idealism: 15. Appearances and things in themselves; 16. Transcendental idealism and the forms of intuition; 17. Transcendental idealism and the theory of judgment; 18. Transcendental idealism and the 'Antinomy of Pure Reason'; Afterword; Notes; General index.
