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...
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...
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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...
Contents: Introduction In the section of the Critique on Phenomena and Noumena, Kant sets himself the goal not only of refining our sense of what...
Concluding thoughts on the Postulates of Empirical Thought Kant’s “General Note” at the end of the “Postulates of Empirical Thought” represents his attempt to show...
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...
Introduction Perhaps the single most important thing to understand about Kant’s discussion of causality is what it does and does not attempt to prove. Kant...
Contents: Location of the Analogies of Experience in the Critique and Orientation It is a good idea once in a while to check in with...
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...