Michael Pendlebury

Making Sense of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (eBook, ePUB)

A Philosophical Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has had, and continues to have, an enormous impact on modern philosophy. In this short, stimulating introduction, Michael Pendlebury explains Kant's major claims in the Critique, how they hang together, and how Kant supports them, clarifying the way in which his reasoning unfolds over the course of this groundbreaking work. Making Sense of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason concentrates on key parts of the Critique that are essential to a basic understanding of Kant's project and provides a sympathetic account of Kant's reasoning about perception, space, time, judgment, substance, causation, objectivity, synthetic a priori knowledge, and the illusions of transcendent metaphysics.

The guiding assumptions of the book are that Kant is a humanist; that his reasoning in the Critique is driven by an interest in human knowledge and the cognitive capacities that underlie it; and that he is not a skeptic, but accepts that human beings have objective knowledge and seeks to explain how this is possible. Pendlebury provides an integrated and accessible account of Kant's explanation that will help those who are new to the Critique make sense of it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350254794
• Artikelnr.: 63680791

Autorenporträt

Michael Pendlebury is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface How to Use This Book Note on Citations of and Quotations from Kant's Works 1. Background 1.1 The Basic Structure of Our World 1.2 Knowledge and Reality 1.3 The Critique of Pure Reason 2 The Preface and the Introduction: Two Types of Metaphysics 2.1 A Science of Metaphysics? (Bvii
xxxi) 2.2 A Priori Cognition (B1
10) 2.3 The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (B10
12) 2.4 Synthetic a Priori Judgments and Knowledge (B12
24) 2.5 Transcendental Philosophy (B24
7) 3 The Transcendental Aesthetic: Sensibility, Space, and Time 3.1 Intuitions, Appearances, and the Forms of Sensibility (B33
7) 3.2 The Presentation of Space (B37
41) 3.3 The Reality of Space (B42
5) 3.4 The Presentation and Reality of Time (B46
58) 4 The Metaphysical Deduction: Judgments, Concepts, and Categories 4.1 Sensibility and Understanding (B74
6) 4.2 Concepts and Judgments (B91
4) 4.3 Forms of Judgment and Categories (B95
101 and 106
13) 4.4 Synthesis (B102
5) 5 The Analogies and the Postulates: Fundamental Principles about Substance, Causation, Community, and Modality 5.1 The System of Principles (B187
9, 193
203, and 207
8) 5.2 Experience and Objectivity (B218
24) 5.3 The First Analogy: Substance (B224
32) 5.4 The Second Analogy: Causation (B232
56) 5.5 The Third Analogy: Community (B256
62) 5.6 The Postulates: Possibility, Actuality, and Necessity (B265
74 and 279
82) 5.7 The Unity of Nature (B263
5) 6 The Transcendental Deduction: Why Intuitions Fall Under Categories 6.1 The Challenge (B116
29) 6.2 Apperception and Judgment: Why Intuitions Must Fall Under Categories (B129
43) 6.3 Interlude (B144
9 and 152
9) 6.4 Figurative Synthesis: Why Intuitions Can Fall Under Categories (B150
2 and 159
69) 6.5 Dreams, Hallucinations, and Seemings 7 The Schematism: How Intuitions Fall Under Categories (B176
87) 7.1 Transcendental Schemata as Criteria 7.2 Sensible and Empirical Schemata and the Synthesis of Imagination 7.3 Transcendental Schemata as Forms of Imaginative Synthesis 7.4 An Overview of Kant's Account of Synthetic a Priori Knowledge 8 The Dialectic: The Limits of Speculative Reason 8.1 Ideas and Illusions (B368
75 and 390
3) 8.2 The Paralogisms: The Soul (B399
415 and 421
8) 8.3 The Antinomy: Nature (B432
48, 525
35, and 556
60) 8.4 The First Antinomy: The Limits of Nature (B454
7 and 545
51) 8.5 The Second Antinomy: The Divisibility of Substance (B462
5 and 551
5) 8.6 The Third Antinomy: Freedom and the Laws of Nature (B472
5 and 560
86) 8.7 The Fourth Antinomy: The Necessity of Nature (B480
3 and 587
95) 8.8 The Ideal: God (B595
619, 624
9, 632
4, 637
8, and 653
6) 8.9 The Regulative Function of Ideas (B670
9, 536
7, 644
8, and 708
16) 9 Taking Stock 9.1 Transcendental Idealism and Things in Themselves (B274
9 and 288
94) 9.2 Kant's Achievement Notes Bibliography Index of Citations of Passages in the Critique of Pure Reason Index of Subjects and Names