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This Critical Guide provides succinct and in-depth explorations of cutting-edge debates concerning the philosophical significance of Kant's revolutionary Critique of Pure Reason.
List of contents
Introduction James R. O'Shea; 1. Kant on the distinction between sensibility and understanding Eric Watkins; 2. Knowledge and its object Stephen Engstrom; 3. Transcendental idealism and the transcendental aesthetic: reading the critique of pure reason forwards Lucy Allais; 4. Kant on the ideality of space and the argument from Spinozism Michela Massimi; 5. How precise is Kant's table of judgments? Michael Wolff (translated by Kenneth R. Westphal); 6. Kant's 'Transcendental Deduction' Barry Stroud; 7. Kant's critique of the layer-cake conception of human mindedness in the B deduction James Conant; 8. The critical and 'empty' representation 'I think' Patricia Kitcher; 9. Kant's mathematical principles of pure understanding Lisa Shabel; 10. Kant's dynamical principles: the analogies of experience Kenneth R. Westphal; 11. The refutation of idealism Ralf M. Bader; 12. The antinomies: an entirely natural antithetic of human reason Graham Bird; 13. The ideal of reason John J. Callanan; 14. Knowledge, discipline, system, hope: the fate of metaphysics in the doctrine of method Andrew Chignell.
About the author
James R. O'Shea is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. He is the author of Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn (2007) and Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': An Introduction and Interpretation (2012), and the editor of Sellars and his Legacy (2016).
Summary
Kant's monumental Critique was arguably the most conceptually revolutionary work in the history of philosophy, but it is a notoriously difficult work, and its philosophical significance is hotly disputed. In this volume, experts clarify Kant's arguments and address the latest controversies, making it invaluable for students and scholars of Kant.
