Kant's Prolegomena: A Critical Guide

✍ Scribed by Peter Thielke (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Prolegomena is often dismissed as Kant's failed attempt to popularize his philosophy, but as the essays collected here show, there is much to be gained from a careful study of the work. The essays explore the distinctive features of the Prolegomena, including Kant's discussion of philosophical methodology, his critical idealism, the nature of experience, his engagement with Hume, the nature of the self, the relation between geometry and physics, and what we cognize about God. Newly commissioned for this volume, the essays as a whole offer sophisticated and innovative interpretations of the Prolegomena, and cast Kant's critical philosophy in a new light.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Humor, Common Sense and the Future of Metaphysics in the Prolegomena
2 Is Metaphysics Possible? The Argumentative Structure of the Prolegomena
3 From ‘Facts’ of Rational Cognition to Their Conditions
4 Transcendental Idealism in the Prolegomena
5 Judgments of Experience and the Grammar of Thought
6 The Beach of Skepticism: Kant and Hume on the Practice of Philosophy and the Proper Bounds of Skepticism
7 The Boundary o f Pure Reason
8 Kant’s Argument Against Psychological Materialism in the Prolegomena
9 The Marriage of Metaphysics and Geometry in Kant’s Prolegomena
10 Kant’s ‘As I f and Hume’s ‘Remote Analogy’: Deism and Theism in Prolegomena §§57 and58
11 Cognition by Analogy and the Possibility of Metaphysics
Bibliography
Index