On The Ideal of Pure Reason
Kant’s chapter, “On the Ideal of Pure Reason,” best known for his critique of the ontological argument, has a greater, more expansive importance for the...
Kant/Rorty
Kant/Rorty
April 14, 2024
Kant, Davidson, and Conceptual Schemes (B53-B91)
Kant, Davidson, and Conceptual Schemes (B53-B91)
March 17, 2024
Space (Transcendental Aesthetic, B37-B46)
Space (Transcendental Aesthetic, B37-B46)
February 14, 2024
Kant/Rorty
Kant/Rorty
April 14, 2024
Kant, Davidson, and Conceptual Schemes (B53-B91)
Kant, Davidson, and Conceptual Schemes (B53-B91)
March 17, 2024
Space (Transcendental Aesthetic, B37-B46)
Space (Transcendental Aesthetic, B37-B46)
February 14, 2024
Kant’s Introduction to the Critique
Kant’s Introduction to the Critique
January 30, 2024
On The Ideal of Pure Reason
On The Ideal of Pure Reason
January 10, 2024
Kant’s Solution to the Antinomies
Kant’s Solution to the Antinomies
October 5, 2023
Kant’s Antinomies
Kant’s Antinomies
July 3, 2023
Kant’s Fourth Paralogism, On Idealism
Kant’s Fourth Paralogism, On Idealism
May 23, 2023
Kant on the Role of Pure Reason (B366ff.)
Concepts of Pure Reason, Platonic Ideas, the Is/Ought Distinction, & Kantian Ideas as Transcendental The sections that lead up to the paralogisms of pure reason...
Kant’s Philosophical Method and the a Priori
Contents: The Centrality of A Priori Reasoning Many outstanding introductory books have been written on Kant and, in many cases, the notion of an a...
Kant/Rorty
How do Pragmatists view Kant? Rorty’s answer may be drawn from several of his essays: for Rorty, as for Dewey and other pragmatist philosophers, Kant...
Kant, Davidson, and Conceptual Schemes (B53-B91)
From Kant’s Concluding Thoughts on the Transcendental Aesthetic up to the analytic of Concepts Contents The Myth of the Given The notion of a perceptual...
Space (Transcendental Aesthetic, B37-B46)
In theTranscendental Aesthetic Kant develops a thesis that might be stated as follows: Despite its foundational importance, this thesis might appear unilluminating, given that Descartes,...
Kant’s Introduction to the Critique
Kant’s saying that “though all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it all arises out of experience,” which appears in the...
Kant’s Solution to the Antinomies
A reader encountering the second half of the Antinomies is likely to feel a certain sense of culmination, perhaps even that Kant’s response to the...
Kant’s Antinomies
Contents: General Introduction to the Antinomies The conflict between rationalism and empiricism that preceded the Critique is responsible for much of the dynamism that appears...
Kant’s Fourth Paralogism, On Idealism
Contents: Introduction Kant’s fourth Paralogism takes as its theme the justification of transcendental idealism against other approaches to what has been called “the problem of...
Kant’s Third Paralogism, On “Personality”
Having critiqued the rationalist argument for the simplicity of the soul, Kant now turns his attention to the rationalist notion of “personality” as an additional...
Kant’s Second Paralogism, On the Simplicity of the Soul
In the second paralogism, Kant continues to develop his critique of rationalist (Cartesian) psychology. He now turns his attention from its substantiality to its simplicity....
