Kant''s Transcendental Deduction

Alison Laywine presents a new interpretation of one of the most famous texts in modern philosophy: Kant's Transcendental Deduction in his Critique of Pure Reason. She shows how Kant developed his view of a world as a whole unified by universal laws, and his view of experience as the whole of all possible appearances unified by universal laws.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The Duisburg Nachlaß


• 2: The Transcendental Deduction Gets Underway


• 3: §18 and §19 of the B-Deduction


• 4: A Cosmology of Experience - §26 of the B-Deduction


• 5: Cartography and Autobiography


• Conclusion

About the author

Alison Laywine completed her doctoral studies at the University of Chicago. She is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. Her research interests extend to ancient philosophy, philosophy of science, and the history of music theory in antiquity and the middle ages.

Summary

Alison Laywine presents a new interpretation of one of the most famous texts in modern philosophy: Kant's Transcendental Deduction in his Critique of Pure Reason. She shows how Kant developed his view of a world as a whole unified by universal laws, and his view of experience as the whole of all possible appearances unified by universal laws.

Additional text

Undoubtedly, Laywine's treatment of the Duisburg Nachlaβin relation to the B-Deduction is a valuable addition to contemporary English-language Kant scholarship.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Laywine, Alison (Associate Professor of Philosophy Laywine
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2020
• EAN: 9780198748922
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874892-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: Enlightenment