Kant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason

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Bloomsbury Academic, Aug 1, 2008 - Philosophy - 160 pages

Two currents of thought dominated Western philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism. Despite the gradual dissemination of British ideas on the Continent in the first decades of the eighteenth century, these fundamentally disparate philosophical outlooks seemed to be wholly irreconcilable. However, the publication of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 presented an entirely new method of philosophical reasoning that promised to combine the virtues of Rationalism with the scientific rigour of Empiricism.
This book offers the first extended analysis of Kant's method of proof in philosophy. The author constructs a model based on Kant's own statements about his procedure and then examines his famous proofs in light of it. Great emphasis is placed on historical accuracy and the debunking of popular myths about Kant's aims and doctrines. The result is a compelling new picture of Kant that will challenge current assumptions.

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Contents

Introduction
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The Transcendental Refutation of Empirical Idealism
62
The Transcendental as a Level of Discourse
118
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About the author (2008)

Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. He is the author of Kant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason (2008), coauthor of Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained (2016) and Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and Explained (2021), coeditor of Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles (2021), coeditor of Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (2020), and series editor (with Kevin McCain) of Routledge Studies in Epistemology.

Bibliographic information

TitleKant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason
Volume 4 of Continuum Studies in Philosophy
AuthorScott Stapleford
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2008
ISBN0826499287, 9780826499288
Length160 pages
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