Kant An Introduction

includes index and biblioraphy

General introduction The main problem Kant`s notion of the a priori `A priori` as applied to judgments `A priori` as applied to concepts and percepts Concepts Percepts Implications of Kant`s notion of the a priori The Copernican revolution Transcendental arguments Space, time, and mathematics Introductory remarks The Transcendental Aesthetic General introduction Intuition Pure and empirical intuition Facts at the back of Kant`s theory Kant`s view of the difference between spatial characteristics and sensible qualities Theory of space Special arguments to prove that our knowledge of space is non-empirical First argument Second argument Special arguments to prove that our knowledge of space is intuitive First argument Second argument First edition Second edition What did Kant think that he had proved? The arguments from incongruent counterparts Van dem ersten Grunde The Inaugural Dissertation in Prolegomena and Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science Independent comments on the argu¿ ments The argument from our knowledge of geometry Summary of Kant`s theory of space Theory of time Special arguments Arguments for the non-empirical and intuitive character of our knowledge of time Argument from our knowledge of certain prop¿ ositions about time The nature of mathematics Geometry Comments on Kant`s account of geometry Arithmetic Algebra The Transcendental Analytic General remarks on the Analytic Discovery of the categories and principles by help of formal logic Discursive and intuitive cognition Transcendental logic Nature of judgment The table for classifying judgments Transition to the table of categories Imaginative synthesis What is imaginative synthesis? What are the data to be synthesised? What is the product of synthesis? Sketch of a possible account of synthesis Transition from judgments to categories The table of categories Kant`s comments on the table The doctrine of schematism Kant`s problem The notion of the transcendental schema of a category Kant`s list of transcendental schemata and prin¿ciples Comments on the notion of schematism The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories Independent statement of Kant`s problem Transcendental Deduction A Why do the categories need a transcendental deduction? General principles of a transcendental deduction The processes involved in epistemologically objective experiences The functions of`imagination` The `affinity` of appearances The understanding and its categories The doctrine of a `synopsis` and three `syntheses` The notion of physical object Transcendental Deduction B Concluding comments on certain points in the two Deductions The notion of conjunction The human mind as the source of the law-.abidingness of nature The theory in the Prolegomena `Judgments of perception` and `judgments of experience` Introduction of the notion of necessity Necessity and empirical objectivity Introduction of the categories Empirical objects and the categories Relevance of the theory to Hume`s problem The principles of pure understanding The mathematical principles The principle of the axioms of intuition The principle for anticipating perceptions