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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 4 - Transcendental Idealism in the 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
The chapter examines how Kant casts his critical philosophy in the Prolegomena, and in particular how the accusations of being a Berkeleyian force him to refine his views about what exactly the mind-dependence of appearances involves. After looking at what exactly Kant means by ‘a priori intuition,’ the essay explores three main ways to make sense of his transcendental idealism – roughly, an epistemic account, a phenomenalist or ‘mentalist’ view and a relationalist interpretation – and argues that the last of these provides the most fruitful approach to the arguments in the Prolegomena, including the examples involving incongruent counterparts. On this view, the Prolegomena stands as an important stage in Kant’s development precisely in its repudiation of Berkeleyian phenomenalism, and while it is only in the B-edition of the first Critique that transcendental idealism is fully presented, the Prolegomena marks a clear advance over the A-edition.
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- Kant's ProlegomenaA Critical Guide, pp. 71 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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