Book contents
- 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 6 - The Beach of Skepticism: Kant and Hume on the Practice of Philosophy and the Proper Bounds of Skepticism
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
Commentators typically take the focus of Kant’s response of Hume to be directed at the latter’s account of causation, but this chapter argues that Kant’s critique of Hume is better understood in methodological terms.On this interpretation, Kant sees Hume as raising a ‘demarcation’ challenge’ that asks how we can distinguish between the proper deployment of reason in the natural sciences and its illegitimate use in dogmatic metaphysics – but, by Kant’s lights, Hume’s failure to recognize the ‘hylomorphic’ nature of our cognitive faculties prevents him from meeting the challenge he presents.
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- Kant's ProlegomenaA Critical Guide, pp. 111 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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