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Book SynopsisKant's monumental Critique was arguably the most conceptually revolutionary work in the history of philosophy, but it is a notoriously difficult work, and its philosophical significance is hotly disputed. In this volume, experts clarify Kant's arguments and address the latest controversies, making it invaluable for students and scholars of Kant.
Trade Review'The individual essays of this volume are of high quality and fit together well, even when - or perhaps especially when - they defend contradictory positions on a given issue … This will be a book that Kant scholars will want to read.' James Messina, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Table of ContentsIntroduction James R. O'Shea; 1. Kant on the distinction between sensibility and understanding Eric Watkins; 2. Knowledge and its object Stephen Engstrom; 3. Transcendental idealism and the transcendental aesthetic: reading the critique of pure reason forwards Lucy Allais; 4. Kant on the ideality of space and the argument from Spinozism Michela Massimi; 5. How precise is Kant's table of judgments? Michael Wolff (translated by Kenneth R. Westphal); 6. Kant's 'Transcendental Deduction' Barry Stroud; 7. Kant's critique of the layer-cake conception of human mindedness in the B deduction James Conant; 8. The critical and 'empty' representation 'I think' Patricia Kitcher; 9. Kant's mathematical principles of pure understanding Lisa Shabel; 10. Kant's dynamical principles: the analogies of experience Kenneth R. Westphal; 11. The refutation of idealism Ralf M. Bader; 12. The antinomies: an entirely natural antithetic of human reason Graham Bird; 13. The ideal of reason John J. Callanan; 14. Knowledge, discipline, system, hope: the fate of metaphysics in the doctrine of method Andrew Chignell.