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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...