Kant, Immanuel

1. Summary

2. Key Terminology

2.1 The synthetic v. analytic distinction

2.2 The a priori v. a posteriori distinction

3. Key Readings

3.1 Critique of Pure Reason

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3.3 Henry Allison’s Works

4. Bibliography

(drawn from Long’s bibliography)

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  3. Allison, Henry E. “The Non-Spatiality of Things in Themselves for Kant.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 14, no. 3 (1976): 313–321.
  4. Ameriks, Karl. Interpreting Kant’s Critiques. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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  6. Bernecker, Sven. “Kant on Spatial Orientation.” European Journal of Philosophy 20, no. 4 (2012): 519–533.
  7. Bouton, Christophe. “Transcendental Ideality or Absolute Reality of Time? Time for the Subject and Time for the World in Kant.” Kant-Studien 103, no. 4 (2012).
  8. Buroker, Jill Vance. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  9. Callanan, John J. “Contemporary Kantian Metaphysics: New Essays on Space and Time.” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 22, no. 1 (2014): 144–148.
  10. Carrier, Martin. “Kant’s Relational Theory of Absolute Space.” Kant-Studien 83, no. 4 (1992): 399–416.
  11. Cassirer, H. W. Kant’s First Critique: An Appraisal of the Permanent Significance of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Routledge, 2002.
  12. Chadwick, Ruth F., and Clive Cazeaux, eds. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Routledge, 1992.
  13. Chignell, Andrew. “Kant’s Concepts of Justification.” Noûs 41, no. 1 (2007): 33–63.
  14. Collins, Arthur W. Possible Experience: Understanding Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. University of California Press, 1999.
  15. Constantin, Antonopoulos. “Passive Knowledge: How to Make Sense of Kant’s A Priori—Or How Not to Be ‘Too Busily Subsuming.’” Open Journal of Philosophy 1, no. 2 (2011): 39.
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  17. Edgar, Scott. “The Explanatory Structure of the Transcendental Deduction and a Cognitive Interpretation of the First Critique.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40, no. 2 (2010): 285–314.
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  23. Grier, M. “Possible Experience: Understanding Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.” Philosophical Review 110, no. 1 (2001): 135–137.
  24. Groth, Miles. “Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Studies in Continental Thought.” Review of Metaphysics 52, no. 2 (1998): 455–457.
  25. Guyer, Paul, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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  27. Hacyan, Shahen. “On the Transcendental Ideality of Space and Time in Modern Physics.” Kant-Studien 97, no. 3 (2006): 382–395.
  28. Hall, Bryan, Mark Black, and Matt Sheffield. The Arguments of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Lexington Books, 2010.
  29. Hartnack, Justus. Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason. Hackett, 2001.
  30. Heidegger, Martin. Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Indiana University Press, 1997.
  31. Heidemann, Dietmar H., ed. Kant and Non-Conceptual Content. Routledge, 2012.
  32. Hyslop, James H. “Kant’s Doctrine of Time and Space.” Mind 7, no. 25 (1898): 71–84.
  33. Kitcher, Patricia, ed. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Critical Essays. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.
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  35. Kuehn, Manfred. “Kant’s Conception of ‘Hume’s Problem.’” Journal of the History of Philosophy 21, no. 2 (1983): 175–193.
  36. Kuehn, Manfred. “Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of God’s Existence as a Postulate of Pure Practical Reason.” Kant-Studien 76, nos. 1–4 (1985): 152–169.
  37. Luchte, James. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: A Reader’s Guide. Continuum, 2007.
  38. McBay Merritt, Melissa. “Analysis in the Critique of Pure Reason.” Kantian Review 12, no. 1 (2007): 61–89.
  39. McBay Merritt, Melissa. “Kant on the Transcendental Deduction of Space and Time: An Essay on the Philosophical Resources of the Transcendental Aesthetic.” Kantian Review 14, no. 2 (2010): 1–37.
  40. McBay Merritt, Melissa. “Science and the Synthetic Method of the Critique of Pure Reason.” Review of Metaphysics 59, no. 3 (2006): 517–539.
  41. McGoldrick, P. M. “The Metaphysical Exposition: An Analysis of the Concept of Space.” Kant-Studien 76, nos. 1–4 (1985): 257–275.
  42. McLear, Colin. “Two Kinds of Unity in the Critique of Pure Reason.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 53, no. 1 (2015): 79–110.
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  44. Melnick, Arthur. Kant’s Analogies of Experience. University of Chicago Press, 1973.
  45. Melnick, Arthur. “Kant on Intuition.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 8, no. 1 (1983): 339–358.
  46. Melnick, Arthur. “Space, Time, and Thought in Kant.” Noûs 28, no. 2 (1994): 258–262.
  47. Miles, Murray. “Kant’s ‘Copernican Revolution’: Toward Rehabilitation of a Concept and Provision of a Framework for the Interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason.” Kant-Studien 97, no. 1 (2006): 1–32.
  48. Morris, George S. “Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of Categories.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15, no. 3 (1881): 253–274.
  49. Newman, Michael D. “The Unity of Time and Space, and Its Role In Kant’s Doctrine of Apriori Synthesis.” Idealistic Studies 11, no. 2 (1981): 109–124.
  50. O’Shea, James R. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction and Interpretation. Acumen, 2012.
  51. Palter, Robert. “Absolute Space and Absolute Motion in Kant’s Critical Philosophy.” Synthese 23, no. 1 (1971): 47–62.
  52. Paton, H. J. “Kant’s First Critique.” Philosophical Quarterly 6, no. 24 (1956): 260–265.
  53. Paton, H. J. Kant’s Metaphysic of Experience. G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1936.
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  56. Rogerson, Kenneth. “Kant on the Ideality of Space.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (June 1988): 271–286.
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  58. Sassen, Brigitte, ed. Kant’s Early Critics: The Empiricist Critique of the Theoretical Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  59. Schipper, E. W. “Kant’s Answer to Hume’s Problem.” Kant-Studien 53, nos. 1–4 (1962): 68–74.
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  71. Stern, Robert. “Metaphysical Dogmatism, Humean Scepticism, Kantian Criticism.” Kantian Review 11, no. 1 (2006): 102-116.
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  81. Ward, Andrew. “Kant’s First Analogy’ of Experience.” Kant-Studien 92, no. 4 (2001): 387-406.
  82. Warren, Daniel. “Kant and the Apriority of Space.” Philosophical Review 107, no. 2 (1998): 179-224.
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  94. Wilson, Eric Entrican. “On the Nature of Judgment in Kant’s Transcendental Logic.” Idealistic Studies 40, no. 1/2 (2010): 43-63.
  95. Woelert, Peter. “Kant’s Hands, Spatial Orientation, and the Copernican Turn.” Continental Philosophy Review 40, no. 2 (2007): 139-150.
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  98. Wood, Allen W., Paul Guyer & Henry E. Allison. “Debating Allison on Transcendental Idealism.” Kantian Review 12, no. 2 (2007): 1-39.
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