Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason": Critical Essays (Critical Essays on the Classics)

The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is 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 Reason with a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments, and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those themes and arguments. Publisher's note Kant's A Priori Framework / Philip Kitcher -- Was Kant A Nativist? / Lorne Falkenstein -- Infinity And Kant's Conception Of The Possibility Of Experience / Charles Parsons -- Kant's Cognitive Self / Patricia Kitcher -- Kant's Transcendental Deduction As A Regressive Argument / Karl Ameriks -- Did The Sage Of Königsberg Have No Dreams? / Lewis White Beck -- Kant's Second Analogy : Objects, Events And Casual Laws / Paul Guyer -- Metaphysics Of Transcendental Idealism [partial], From The Bounds Of Sense / P.f. Strawson -- Introduction To The Problem, And Transcendental Realism And Transcendental Idealism, From Kant's Transcendental Idealism / Henry Allison -- Projecting The Order Of Nature / Philip Kitcher -- Kant's Compatibilism / Allen W. Wood -- Kant's Critique Of The Three Theistic Proofs [partial], From Kant's Rational Theology / Allen W. Wood. Edited By Patricia Kitcher. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 283-289) And Index. The central project of The Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two questions: What can we know and how can we know it? What can't we know and why can't we know these things? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read The Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those themes and arguments. The central project of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" was to answer two questions: what can we know and how can we know it? and what can't we know and why can't we know these things? These essays should help students read Kant's text with a greater understanding of its central themes.