Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Schematism (Transcendental Analytic Book II)
Contents: Pure Concepts vs. Images The Difficulty This Creates and the Need for Schemata What is a Schema? Schematism and the Categories Following upon the...
Contents: Pure Concepts vs. Images The Difficulty This Creates and the Need for Schemata What is a Schema? Schematism and the Categories Following upon the...
Contents: Kant provided us with a second, entirely new deduction (or proof) of the necessity for the categories of the understanding in the second edition...
On Kant’s “The Relation of the Understanding to Objects in General, and the Possibility of Knowing them A Priori” Contents: Unification as the Bridge Adequation...
Contents: The Transcendental Deduction Kant’s Transcendental Deduction is considered to be one of the more difficult chapters of the Critique. Let’s start with the title...
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...
How does Kant Justify A Priori Synthetic Claims about the Nature of Objects? Contents: Time and Motion After discussing space as a precondition for a...
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...
Since Michael Sandel raised the issue in “The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self,” the need for a communitarian ethic, especially in contemporary American society,...
An examination and commentary on Hans Bertens’ explanation of postmoderism in The Idea of the Postmodern The postmodern movement, like existentialism, has been difficult to...