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...
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...
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: 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: 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...
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...