The central project of the
Critique of Pure Reasonis to answer two sets of questions: what can we know and how can we know it? What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the
Critique of Pure Reasonwith a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments, and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those themes and arguments.
Patricia Kitcheris professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and the author of
Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind(M.I.T. Press) and
Kant's Transcendental Psychology(Oxford).
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Kant'sA PrioriFramework
Chapter 3 Was Kant a Nativist?
Chapter 4 Infinity and Kant's Conception of the 'Possibility of Experience,'
Chapter 5 Kant's Cognitive Self
Chapter 6 Kant's Transcendental Deduction as a Regressive Argument
Chapter 7 Did the Sage of Konigsberg Have No Dreams?
Chapter 8 Kant's Second Analogy
Chapter 9 The Metaphysics of Transcendental Idealism [partial], fromThe Bounds of Sense
Chapter 10 An Introduction to the Problem and Transcendental Realism and Transcendental Idealism, fromKant's Transcendental Idealism
Chapter 11 Projecting the Order of Nature
Chapter 12 Kant's Compatibilism
Chapter 13 Kant's Critique of the Three Theistic Proofs [partial], fromKant's Rational Theology