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Title

Kant's reform of metaphysics : the Critique of pure reason reconsidered / Karin de Boer.

Author

Boer, Karin de

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Description

x, 280 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Scholarly debates on the Critique of Pure Reason have largely been shaped by epistemological questions. Challenging this prevailing trend, Kant's Reform of Metaphysics is the first book-length study to interpret Kant's Critique in view of his efforts to turn Christian Wolff's highly influential metaphysics into a science. Karin de Boer situates Kant's pivotal work in the context of eighteenthcentury German philosophy, traces the development of Kant's conception of critique, and offers fresh and in-depth analyses of key parts of the Critique of Pure Reason, including the Transcendental Deduction, the Schematism Chapter, the Appendix to the Transcendental Analytic, and the Architectonic. The book not only brings out the coherence of Kant's project, but also reconstructs the outline of the 'system of pure reason' for which the Critique was to pave the way, but that never saw the light"--

Subject

• Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
• Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Kant, Immanuel)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and indexes.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Wolff, Crusius, and Kant -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Kant's Assessment of Wolff in the 1780s -- 3. WolfFs Overhaul of Seventeenth-Century Scholasticism -- 4. Crusius's Challenge to Wolffian Metaphysics -- 5. Post-Leibnizian Monadologies -- 2. The "Thorny Paths of Critique" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Kant's Intellectual Trajectory in a Nutshell (175 5-1770) -- 3. Kant's Early Notion of Critique -- 4. The Inaugural Dissertation -- 5. Toward a Two-Pronged Critique of Metaphysics -- 6. Kant's Conception of Critique in the Critique of Pure Reason -- 7. Kant's Two-Pronged Critique of Metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason -- 8. Conclusion -- 3. Ontology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Task of Transcendental Logic -- 3. T̀ranscendental Philosophy' Prior to Kant -- 4. Kant's Conception of Transcendental Philosophy -- 5. Transcendental Critique -- 6. Kant's Criticism of Wolff's and Tetens's Conceptions of Ontology -- 7. Conclusion -- 4. Things in Themselves, Transcendental Objects, and Monads -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Affecting Objects -- 3. Locke versus Leibniz -- 4. Things in Themselves and Noumena -- 5. The Transcendental Object -- 6. Conclusion -- 5. The 1781 Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Aims of the Transcendental Deduction According to Kant -- 3. Pure Concepts of the Understanding -- 4. Possible Experience -- 5. Kant's Dissection of the Pure Understanding -- 6. The Objective Deduction -- 7. Synthetic A Priori Cognition of Objects -- 8. Conclusion -- 6. The Schematism of the Pure Understanding -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Wolffian Background of Kant's Account of Transcendental Schemata -- 3. Kant's Initial Presentation of the Schematism of Pure Concepts -- 4. Naked Categories, Pure Concepts, and Transcendental Schemata -- 5. The Trajectory of the Transcendental Analytic -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Transcendental Reflection -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Wolffian Background of Kant's Account of Logical Reflection -- 3. Logical Reflection and the Table of Concepts of Reflection -- 4. Transcendental Reflection and the Real Use of the Concepts of Reflection -- 5. Kant's Critique of Leibniz -- 6. Transcendental Reflection Proper -- 7. Conclusion -- 8. Kant's Projected System of Pure Reason -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Building Plan -- 3. Kant's Intended Overhaul of Baumgarten's Ontology -- 4. Kant's Projected Rational Physiology -- 5. The System Considered from the Standpoint of Ends -- 6. Kant's Later Remarks on His Projected System -- 7. Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 21-3339

ISBN

• 9781108842174
• 1108842178
• 9781108820110
• 1108820115

LCCN

2020009143

OCLC

1141235294

Author

Boer, Karin de, author.

Title

Kant's reform of metaphysics : the Critique of pure reason reconsidered / Karin de Boer.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and indexes.

Other Form:

Online version: Boer, Karin de, Kant's reform of metaphysics Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108897983 (DLC) 2020009144

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3339