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the cambridge companion to KANT’S CRITIQUEOFPURE REASON ImmanuelKant’sCritiqueofPureReason,firstpublishedin1781,isoneof the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on all philosophy since its publication.Inthismassivework,Kanthasthreeaims.First,heconstructsa new theory of knowledge that delivers certainty about the fundamental principles of human experience at the cost of knowledge of how things are in themselves. Second, he delivers a devastating critique of traditional “speculative” metaphysics on the basis of his new theory of knowledge. Third,hesuggestshowthecorebeliefsoftheWesternmetaphysicaltradition thatcannotbejustifiedastheoreticalknowledgecanneverthelessbejustified asobjectsof“moralfaith”becausetheyarethenecessaryconditionsofthe possibilityofmoralagency.KantstartedthisthirdprojectintheCritiqueof PureReason,butwouldgoontocompleteitintwootherworks,Critiqueof PracticalReasonandCritiqueofthePowerofJudgment. TheCambridgeCompaniontoKant’s“CritiqueofPureReason”isthefirst collectivecommentaryonthisworkinEnglish.Theseventeenchaptershave been written by an international team of scholars, including some of the best-knownfiguresinthefieldaswellasemergingyoungertalents.Thefirst two chapters situate Kant’s project against the background of Continental rationalism and British empiricism, the dominant schools of early modern philosophy.Elevenchaptersthenexpoundandassessallthemainarguments of the Critique. Finally, four chapters recount the enormous influence of the Critique on subsequent philosophical movements, including German Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, twentieth-century Continental philosophy, and twentieth-century Anglo-American analytic philosophy. The book con- cludeswithanextensivebibliography. PaulGuyerisProfessorofPhilosophyandFlorenceR.C.MurrayProfessorin theHumanitiesattheUniversityofPennsylvania,wherehehastaughtsince 1982. He is the author or editor of fourteen books on Immanuel Kant and co–generaleditoroftheCambridgeEditionoftheWorksofImmanuelKant, in which he has co-edited and co-translated the Critique of Pure Reason, CritiqueofthePowerofJudgment,andNotesandFragments. cambridge companions to philosophy ANCIENTSCEPTICISM, editedbyrichard bett CARNAP, editedbymichael friedman and richard creath BOETHIUS, editedbyjohn marenbon CONSTANT, editedbyhelena rosenblatt DARWIN,SecondEdition, editedbyjonathan hodge andgregory radick EPICUREANISM, editedbyjames warren GALEN, editedbyr.j. hankinson HEGELANDNINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY, editedbyfrederick c. beiser HUME, SecondEdition, editedbydavid fate norton andjacqueline taylor KANT’SCRITIQUEOFPUREREASON, editedby paul guyer LEOSTRAUSS, editedbysteven b. smith PHILO, editedbyadam kamesar PIAGET, editedbyulrich mu¨ller,jeremy i.m. carpendale,andleslie smith THEORIGINOFSPECIES, editedbymichael ruse and robert j. richards SPINOZA’SETHICS, editedbyolli koistinen The Cambridge Companion to ’ KANT S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON EDITED BY Paul Guyer UniversityofPennsylvania CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore, Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,Dubai,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,NY10013-2473,USA www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521710114 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2010 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2010 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData TheCambridgecompaniontoKant’sCritiqueofpurereason/editedby PaulGuyer. p. cm.–(Cambridgecompanionstophilosophy) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-521-88386-3(hardback) 1. Kant,Immanuel,1724–1804.KritikderreinenVernunft. I. Guyer, Paul,1948– II. Title. III. Series. B2779.C25 2010 121–dc22 2010017677 ISBN978-0-521-88386-3Hardback ISBN978-0-521-71011-4Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtoin thispublicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis, orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Contents Contributors pageix Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 PAUL GUYER PartI TheBackgroundtotheCritique 19 1 Kant’sCopernicanTurnandtheRationalistTradition 21 DESMOND HOGAN 2 Kant,theEmpiricists,andtheEnterpriseofDeduction KENNETH P. WINKLER 41 PartII TheArgumentsoftheCritique 73 3 TheIntroductiontotheCritique:FramingtheQuestion R. LANIER ANDERSON 75 4 TheTranscendentalAesthetic 93 LISA SHABEL 5 TheDeductionoftheCategories:TheMetaphysicaland TranscendentalDeductions 118 PAUL GUYER 6 TheSystemofPrinciples 151 ERIC WATKINS 7 TheRefutationofIdealismandtheDistinctionbetween PhenomenaandNoumena 168 DINA EMUNDTS 8 TheIdeasofPureReason 190 MICHAEL ROHLF 9 TheParalogismsofPureReason 210 JULIAN WUERTH vii viii Contents 10 TheAntinomiesofPureReason ALLEN W. WOOD 245 11 TheIdealofPureReason 266 MICHELLE GRIER 12 TheAppendixtotheDialecticandtheCanonofPure Reason:ThePositiveRoleofReason 290 FREDERICK RAUSCHER 13 TheTranscendentalDoctrineofMethod A.W. MOORE 310 PartIII TheImpactoftheCritique 327 14 TheReceptionoftheCritiqueofPureReasoninGerman Idealism ROLF-PETER HORSTMANN 329 15 The“TranscendentalMethod”:OntheReceptionofthe CritiqueofPureReasoninNeo-Kantianism 346 KONSTANTIN POLLOK 16 TheCritiqueofPureReasonandContinental Philosophy:Heidegger’sInterpretationof TranscendentalImagination 380 DANIEL DAHLSTROM 17 Kant’sCritiqueofPureReasonandAnalyticPhilosophy KENNETH R. WESTPHAL 401 Bibliography 431 Index 455 Contributors R. LANIER ANDERSON is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He works in the history of late modern philosophy, with a primary focus on Kant, Nietzsche, and the Neo-Kantian movement. His recent papers include “It Adds Up After All: Kant’s Philosophy of Arithmetic in Light of the Traditional Logic” (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2004) and “Nietzsche on Truth, Illusion, and Redemption” (The European Journal of Philosophy, 2005). He is working on a book on Kant’s analytic/synthetic distinction and its role in the critique of metaphysics entitled The Poverty of ConceptualTruth. DANIEL DAHLSTROM is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. His most recent publications include Philosophical Legacies:EssaysonKant,Hegel,andTheirContemporaries(2008)and a translation of Heidegger’s first Marburg lectures, Introduction to PhenomenologicalResearch(2006). DINA EMUNDTS isProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofKonstanz, Germany. She is the author of Kant’s U¨bergangskonzeption im Opus postumum (2004); editor of Kant und die Berliner Aufkla¨rung (2000); and, with Rolf-Peter Horstmann, co-author of G.W.F. Hegel: Eine Einfu¨hrung(2002). MICHELLE GRIER is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. Sheis the author of Kant’sDoctrine of Transcendental Illusion (2001). PAUL GUYER is Professor of Philosophy and Florence R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of nine books on Kant, including, most recently, Kant’s ix
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