Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason

0.1 Beginning at the Beginning(s)
0.2 The Rational Sources Account
0.3 One Argument, Four Levels
0.4 Kant's Two Projects in the Transcendental Dialectic
0.5 Overview
Part I From Reason to Metaphysics
Introduction to Part I
1. Kant's Conceptions of Reason and Metaphysics
1.1 Kant's Conception of Reason
1.2 Kant's Conception of Metaphysics
1.3 Conclusion
2. The Logical Use of Reason and the Logical Maxim
2.1 The Logical Use of Reason
2.2 The Content of the Logical Maxim
2.3 The Logical Maxim, Science, and Universal Human Reason
2.4 Conclusion
3. The Supreme Principle of Pure Reason
3.1 'Given'
3.2 Real Conditioning
3.3 The Unconditioned
3.4 The Supreme Principle and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
4. Understanding the Transition Passage (A307-8/B364)
4.1 Objective Validity
4.2 Regulative and Constitutive Use of Principles in the Appendix and in the
Resolution of the Antinomy
4.3 A Transition in Two Steps
5. The Transition from the Logical Maxim to the Supreme
Principle of Pure Reason
5.1 Step 1: From the Logical Maxim to the Regulative Supreme Principle
5.2 Step 2: From the Regulative to the Constitutive Supreme Principle
5.3 Why Does the Supreme Principle Hold for Things in Themselves (but Not
for Appearances)?
Conclusion to Part I: The Transition from the Logical Maxim
to the (Constitutive) Supreme Principle and the Rational
Sources Account

Part II The Other Side of the Transcendental Dialectic
Introduction to Part II
6. The System of Transcendental Ideas
6.1 Transcendental Ideas
6.2 On the Metaphysical Deduction of the Transcendental Ideas
6.3 The Concept of the Unconditioned
6.4 The Three Classes of Transcendental Ideas
6.5 Conclusion
7. The Paralogisms and Antinomy Arguments as 'Necessary
Inferences of Reason'
7.1 The Psychological Ideas and the Paralogisms
7.2 Transcendental Illusion and Transcendental Realism in the Paralogisms
7.3 The Cosmological Ideas
7.4 The Antinomies
7.5 Conclusion
8. Reason and Metaphysics in the Transcendental Ideal and
the Appendix
8.1 The Transcendental Ideal and the Natural Argument for God's Existence
8.2 The Constitutive Use of Ideas and Principles in the Appendix
9. Transcendental Realism and Kant's Critique of Speculative
Metaphysics
9.1 Transcendental Realism and Transcendental Idealism
9.2 A Critique of Transcendental Realism
9.3 Limits of Cognition without Transcendental Idealism
9.4 Transcendental Ideas as Empty Concepts
9.5 Conclusion
Conclusion to Part II: Transcendental Illusion and the
'Other Side' of the Transcendental Dialectic
Postscript: Kant's Practical Metaphysics