A Guide to Kant’s Psychologism: via Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Wittgenstein (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy)

This book presents an interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism. It groups Kant’s philosophy together with those of the British empiricists―Locke, Berkeley, and Hume―in a single line of psychologistic succession and offers a clear explanation of how Kant’s psychologism differs from psychology and idealism. The book reconciles Kant’s philosophy with subsequent developments in science and mathematics, including post-Fregean mathematical logic, non-Euclidean geometry, and both relativity and quantum theory. It also relates Kant’s psychologism to Wittgenstein’s later conception of language. Finally, the author reveals the ways in which Kant’s philosophy dovetails with contemporary scientific theorizing about the natural phenomenon of consciousness and its place in nature. This book will be of interest to Kant scholars and historians of philosophy working on the British empiricists. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Abbreviations Used in Referencing Introduction: Kant’s Copernican Revolution 1 Breaking the Mold Part I The Path to Kant: Psychologism and Conventionalism 2 Locke’s Oyster 3 Berkeley’s Vision 4 Hume’s Cement 5 From Hume to Kant via Wittgenstein Part II Nature in Mind: Through Kant’s I’s 6 The Kantian Cogito 7 The Logical I 8 The Aesthetic I 9 The Objective I 10 The I of Nature Conclusion: After Kant Glossary of Kantian Terms Bibliography Index