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...
transcendental
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 Solution to the Antinomies
A reader encountering the second half of the Antinomies is likely to feel a certain sense of culmination, perhaps even that Kant’s response to the...
Kant’s Antinomies
Contents: General Introduction to the Antinomies The conflict between rationalism and empiricism that preceded the Critique is responsible for much of the dynamism that appears...
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’s Third Paralogism, On “Personality”
Having critiqued the rationalist argument for the simplicity of the soul, Kant now turns his attention to the rationalist notion of “personality” as an additional...
Kant’s Second Paralogism, On the Simplicity of the Soul
In the second paralogism, Kant continues to develop his critique of rationalist (Cartesian) psychology. He now turns his attention from its substantiality to its simplicity....
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...
Kant’s Paralogisms of Pure Reason, General Introduction
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...
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...
