Kant’s First Paralogism: On the Substantiality and Immortality of the Soul
The first paralogism concerns the substantiality and immortality of the soul. It addresses whether our experience of the “I“ as an object of our inner...
The first paralogism concerns the substantiality and immortality of the soul. It addresses whether our experience of the “I“ as an object of our inner...
In Book II of the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant shifts from a general discussion of his investigation of transcendental principles as a way out of certain...
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 treatment of transcendental illusion appears in the opening section of the Transcendental Dialectic (B349ff.). In it, he addresses the way in which reason, when...
Of the many, weighty sections of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant’s “Refutation of Idealism” has long attracted the special attention of its interpreters. The...
An experience many readers have doubtless had going through the pages of the Critique of Pure Reason is that Kant often later clarifies ideas he...
Contents: In this section, Kant brings us a step closer to completing the picture of how our power of understanding actually works in relation to...
Understanding, Intentionality, and the Role of Concepts Contents: Our Power of Understanding Perhaps the most central feature of Kant’s discussion of our cognitive processes is...
Following upon the prior article on the a priori and the use Kant makes of it, let’s begin to examine what he does in the...
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...