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? 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.
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The central project of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" was to answer two questions: what can we know and how can we know it? and what can't we know and why can't we know these things? These essays should help students read Kant's text with a greater understanding of its central themes.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Kant's A Priori Framework
Chapter 3 Was Kant a Nativist?
Chapter 4 Infinity and Kant's Conception of the 'Possibility of Experience,'
Chapter 5 Kant's Cognitive Self
Chapter 6 Kant's Transcendental Deduction as a Regressive Argument
Chapter 7 Did the Sage of Konigsberg Have No Dreams?
Chapter 8 Kant's Second Analogy
Chapter 9 The Metaphysics of Transcendental Idealism [partial], fromThe Bounds of Sense
Chapter 10 An Introduction to the Problem and Transcendental Realism and Transcendental Idealism, fromKant's Transcendental Idealism
Chapter 11 Projecting the Order of Nature
Chapter 12 Kant's Compatibilism
Chapter 13 Kant's Critique of the Three Theistic Proofs [partial], fromKant's Rational Theology

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The volumes in this series offer insightful and accessible essays that shed light on the classics of philosophy. Each of the distinguished editors has selected outstanding work in recent scholarship to provide today's readers with a deepened understanding of the most timely issues raised in these important texts.

Series Editor: Steven M. Cahn

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ISBN
9780847689170
Publisert
1998-11-13
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
481 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

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Biografisk notat

Patricia Kitcher is professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind (M.I.T. Press) and Kant's Transcendental Psychology (Oxford).