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Kant's critique of pure reason and the method of metaphysics / Gabriele Gava, University of Turin.

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"In two often neglected passages of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant submits that the Critique is a 'treatise' or a 'doctrine of method'. Gabriele Gava argues that these passages point out that the Critique is the doctrine of method of metaphysics, with the task of showing...

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Main Author: Gava, Gabriele, 1981- (Author)
Other title:Critique of pure reason and the method of metaphysics
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804. > Kritik der reinen Vernunft.
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Kant, Immanuel)
Metaphysics.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Citations of Kant's Works
  • Introduction
  • 1 Kant on Metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason
  • 2 The Critique of Pure Reason, Transcendental Philosophy and the System of Metaphysics
  • 3 Kant and the 'System' of Metaphysics
  • 4 The 'Method' of the Critique of Pure Reason
  • 5 Structure of the Book
  • Part I Metaphysics as a Science and the Role of the Critique of Pure Reason
  • Introduction to Part I
  • Chapter 1 The Worldly Concept of Philosophy and the Possibility of Metaphysics as a Science
  • 1 The Architectonic Unity of the Sciences
  • a. Systematicity as a demand of reason
  • b. The architectonic unity of a science
  • c. The minimal criteria for architectonic unity
  • 2 Two 'Ideas' of Metaphysics
  • a. The school concept and the worldly concept of philosophy
  • b. The architectonic unity of metaphysics
  • c. Metaphysics and the unity of all the sciences
  • 3 The Critique of Pure Reason and Metaphysics According to the Worldly Concept of Philosophy
  • Chapter 2 The Critique of Pure Reason as the Doctrine of Method of Metaphysics
  • 1 What is a 'Doctrine of Method' for Kant?
  • a. Kant's critique of the idea of practical logic. Both in the Vernunftlehre
  • b. Kant on the concept of a doctrine of method
  • 2 The Transcendental Doctrine of Method of the First Critique
  • a. The Discipline of Pure Reason
  • b. The Canon of Pure Reason
  • c. The History of Pure Reason
  • 3 The Critique of Pure Reason as the Doctrine of Method of Metaphysics
  • 4 The Different Characterizations of the Critique
  • a. The Critique as a propaedeutic
  • B. The Critique as faculty analysis
  • 5 One or Two Methods?
  • Part II The Method of Transcendental Philosophy
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 1 Moderate Methodological Conservatism and Common Sense Conservatism
  • 2 Transcendental Philosophy
  • 3 Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions
  • 4 Main Objectives of Part II
  • Chapter 3 Metaphysical Deductions
  • 1 The Metaphysical Deductions of Space and Time
  • a. Expositions of concepts or expositions of intuitions?
  • b. The singularity of space and time
  • c. The singularity argument for space
  • d. The method of the metaphysical expositions
  • 2 The Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories
  • a. The problem of 'completeness'
  • b. The essential link between concepts and judgements
  • c. The forms of judgement for the cognition of objects
  • d. Connecting the forms of judgement to the categories
  • e. The method of the metaphysical deduction of the categories
  • 3 The Metaphysical Deduction of the Transcendental Ideas
  • a. Two characterizations of reason and the unconditioned in On the Transcendental Ideas
  • b. Two derivations of the classes of ideas
  • c. The deduction of the cosmological ideas

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