{"product_id":"making-sense-of-kants-critique-of-pure-reason-9781350254770","title":"Making Sense of Kants Critique of Pure Reason","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKant's \u003ci\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e, how they hang together, and how Kant supports them, clarifying the way in which his reasoning unfolds over the course of this groundbreaking work.\u003ci\u003e Making Sense of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e concentrates on key parts of the \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ea priori\u003c\/i\u003e knowledge, and the illusions of transcendent metaphysics.The guiding assumptions of the book are that Kant is a humanist; that his reasoning in the \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have finally found the book I need for  my undergraduate classes on Kant’s  \u003ci\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e. This clearly  written, lively, engaging book explains  and motivates central ideas in Kant’s  famous, difficult work in a way that  will be invaluable for anyone new to  the \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e. * Lucy Allais, jointly appointed as Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and the University of the Witwatersrand *\u003cbr\u003eA reliable and user-friendly  introduction to Kant’s daunting  masterpiece. Pendlebury treats the main topics of the first \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e in an  order specifically chosen to aid  comprehension. This book will be ideal for leisure readers and for teachers  seeking a compact guide for  undergraduate courses. But graduate  students and seasoned scholars will  also find much value in this rich and  intelligent work. * Ian Proops, Professor in Early Modern Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a very impressive introduction  to one of the most challenging works in  the history of philosophy. Pendlebury  writes fluidly and vividly, and gives the  reader an opinionated view of the text  that functions to reveal Kant’s insights  in a clear and accessible way. Core  arguments and central themes are  handled with a confidence that will aid  both the student approaching this text  for the first time and those looking to  deepen their understanding. * John Callanan, Reader in the Department of Philosophy, King's College London, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow to Use This Book\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNote on Citations of and Quotations from Kant’s Works \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003e1. Background \u003c\/b\u003e 1.1 The Basic Structure of Our World  1.2 Knowledge and Reality  1.3 The Critique of Pure Reason   \u003cb\u003e2 The Preface and the Introduction: Two Types of Metaphysics \u003c\/b\u003e 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)   \u003cb\u003e3 The Transcendental Aesthetic: Sensibility, Space, and Time \u003c\/b\u003e 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)   \u003cb\u003e4 The Metaphysical Deduction: Judgments, Concepts, and Categories \u003c\/b\u003e 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)   \u003cb\u003e5 The Analogies and the Postulates: Fundamental Principles about Substance, Causation, Community, and Modality \u003c\/b\u003e 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)   \u003cb\u003e6 The Transcendental Deduction: Why Intuitions Fall Under Categories \u003c\/b\u003e 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   \u003cb\u003e7 The Schematism: How Intuitions Fall Under Categories (B176–87) \u003c\/b\u003e 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   \u003cb\u003e8 The Dialectic: The Limits of Speculative Reason \u003c\/b\u003e 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)   \u003cb\u003e9 Taking Stock \u003c\/b\u003e 9.1 Transcendental Idealism and Things in Themselves (B274–9 and 288–94)  9.2 Kant’s Achievement   \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex of Citations of Passages in the Critique of Pure Reason \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex of Subjects and Names \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738610905431,"sku":"9781350254770","price":21.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350254770.jpg?v=1720049650","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-sense-of-kants-critique-of-pure-reason-9781350254770","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}