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...
intuition
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 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 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 on “Transcendental Illusion” & The Proper Function of Reason (B349ff.)
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...
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...
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Transcendental Deduction A, Part 1
Contents: The Function of Mind: Bringing Unity to its Objects In a prior post, Kant’s explanation of our power of understanding was explained in terms...
Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic, Part II: Time
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...
Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic, Part 1: Space
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...
