Accessing Kant : a relaxed introduction to the Critique of pure reason / Jay F. Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Jay F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der reinen Vernunft--English.

Kant, Immanuel.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

xi, 312 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Jay Rosenberg introduces Immanuel Kant's masterwork, the Critique of Pure Reason, from a 'relaxed' problem-oriented perspective which treats Kant as an especially insightful practising philosopher, from whom we still have much to learn, intelligently and creatively responding to significant questions that transcend his work's historical setting. Rosenberg's main project is to command a clear view of how Kant understands various perennial problems, how heattempts to resolve them, and to what extent he succeeds. At the same time the book is an introduction to the challenges of reading the text of Kant's work and, to that end, selectively adopts a more rigorous historical and exegetical stance. Accessing Kant will be an invaluable resource for advanced studentsand for any scholar seeking Rosenberg's own distinctive insights into Kant's work.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Two Ways to Encounter Kant

Two styles of historical philosophizing

This book's goals and strategies

The Pythagorean puzzle

Chapter 1 Intelligibility: From Direct Platonism to Concept Empiricism

Universals and modes of being

Structure in the realm of intelligibles

Concept Empiricism

Synthetic a priori judgments

Chapter 2 Epistemic Legitimacy: Experiential Unity, First Principles, and Strategy K

Empirical deductions and transcendental deductions

Neo-Humean empiricism: two sorts of epistemic authority

Anti-skeptical initiatives: strategic alternatives

Tertium quid rationalism vs Strategy K

The experiencing subject: a constitutive end

Chaper 3 The World from a Point of View: Space and Time

Space, the form of outer sense

Time, the form of inner sense

The transcendental ideality of space and time

Is Kant right about space and time?

Chapter 4 Concepts and Categories: Transcendental Logic and the Metaphysical Deduction

Transcendental logic

A new theory of concepts

Intuitions revisited: Cartesian perception and Kantian perception

The Forms of Judgment

The Table of Categories

Chapter 5 Perceptual Synthesis: From Sensations to Objects

A phenomenology of perception

The ''threefold synthesis''

Transcendental apperception, rules, and concepts

Objects of representation

Apperception and inner sense

Chapter 6 Schemata and Principles: From Pure Concepts to Objective Judgments

The unity of perception

Schemata: some puzzles

Schemata: some solutions

Homogeneity: two ways to ''apply a concept''

Schematizing the categories

A priori principles

Chapter 7 Synchronic Manifolds: The Axioms and Anticipations

An item in an environment

Extensive magnitude

Intensive magnitude

Continuity and its consequences.

Chapter 8 Diachronic Manifolds: The Analogies of Experience

Philosophical analogies

The Auditory Model

Change in the Auditory Model

Substance in the Auditory Model

Causality in the Auditory Model

Space in the Auditory Model

Chapter 9 Duration and Persistence: Substance in the Analogies

Hume on identity and duration

Persistence, alteration, and change

Substance as object and substance as matter

Substance in action

Chapter 10 Succession and Simultaneity: Causation in the Analogies

Successive apprehendings: the problem

Successive apprehendeds: Kant's solution

Simultaneous causation

Reciprocal causation

Chapter 11 The World as Actual: The Postulates and the Refutation of Idealism

Real possibility and material necessity

The many faces of idealism

Idealism refuted

Idealism from within

Phenomena and noumena

Chapter 12 The Thinking Self as an Idea of Reason: The Paralogisms

The very idea of an idea of reason

The ''I'' who thinks

Dissolving the transcendental illusion

Chapter 13 Reason in Conflict with Itself: A Brief Look at the Antinomies

In search of world-concepts

The necessary conflicts of cosmological ideas

The arguments of the First Antinomy

Reason's interests and reason's attitudes

Unraveling the Antinomies

The First Antinomy resolved

. . . and a quick glance at the other three

Epilogue: The Rest of the First Critique

Bibliography: Works Cited and Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-302) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191534690

0191534692

0-19-169984-5

0-19-153469-2

0-19-927581-5

1-280-75527-X

1-4294-3077-X

OCLC:

437109487

Publisher Number:

9780199275816 (hbk. : alk. paper)

9780199275823 (pbk. : alk. paper)