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- Kant’s Prolegomena
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Kant’s Prolegomena
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Humor, Common Sense and the Future of Metaphysics in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 2 Is Metaphysics Possible? The Argumentative Structure of the Prolegomena
- Chapter 3 From ‘Facts’ of Rational Cognition to Their Conditions: Metaphysics and the ‘Analytic’ Method
- Chapter 4 Transcendental Idealism in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 5 Judgments of Experience and the Grammar of Thought
- Chapter 6 The Beach of Skepticism: Kant and Hume on the Practice of Philosophy and the Proper Bounds of Skepticism
- Chapter 7 The Boundary of Pure Reason
- Chapter 8 Kant’s Argument Against Psychological Materialism in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 9 The Marriage of Metaphysics and Geometry in Kant’s Prolegomena
- Chapter 10 Kant’s ‘As If’ and Hume’s ‘Remote Analogy’: Deism and Theism in Prolegomena §§57 and 58
- Chapter 11 Cognition by Analogy and the Possibility of Metaphysics
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Chapter 9 - The Marriage of Metaphysics and Geometry in Kant’s Prolegomena
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
- Kant’s Prolegomena
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Kant’s Prolegomena
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Humor, Common Sense and the Future of Metaphysics in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 2 Is Metaphysics Possible? The Argumentative Structure of the Prolegomena
- Chapter 3 From ‘Facts’ of Rational Cognition to Their Conditions: Metaphysics and the ‘Analytic’ Method
- Chapter 4 Transcendental Idealism in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 5 Judgments of Experience and the Grammar of Thought
- Chapter 6 The Beach of Skepticism: Kant and Hume on the Practice of Philosophy and the Proper Bounds of Skepticism
- Chapter 7 The Boundary of Pure Reason
- Chapter 8 Kant’s Argument Against Psychological Materialism in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 9 The Marriage of Metaphysics and Geometry in Kant’s Prolegomena
- Chapter 10 Kant’s ‘As If’ and Hume’s ‘Remote Analogy’: Deism and Theism in Prolegomena §§57 and 58
- Chapter 11 Cognition by Analogy and the Possibility of Metaphysics
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Summary
Over his career, Kant engages in a long attempt – which reaches a high point in the Prolegomena – to forge what in the Physical Monadology he calls a ‘marriage’ of metaphysics and geometry. The chapter traces the development of Kant’s thought on this union from its pre-critical roots to its flowering in the Prolegomena, and focuses on the role that geometric construction in natural science plays in connecting the two disciplines. This has implications both for how we should understand Kant’s desire to discover the ‘common origin’ of mathematics and natural science that is spelled out in the Prolegomena, as well as how this bears on Kant’s broader views about the status of natural science and laws.
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- Kant's ProlegomenaA Critical Guide, pp. 175 - 195Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021