SYLLABUS PHIL 433/533 ~ Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (CRN 16935/16936) Fall 2013, M W 1800-1950 208 DEA Professor: Peter Warnek [email protected] Office hours (246 SCH): Thursdays 1330-1530, and by appointment.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
We will read Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (a.k.a. the First Critique) and consider this text according to the twofold task it sets for itself, to establish a tribunal or a court of justice in which reason can both secure its rightful claims and dismiss its groundless pretensions. Here the question arises: how is reason able to effectively accomplish its own critique? Does reason not already have to accept its own authority, precisely in order to establish this tribunal that would institute the critique? It thus appears that reason is able to question its own claims only by already assuming itself as legitimate in a certain way. How does the First Critique address the difficulty? What is at issue here concerns the very possibility of the critical project as such, the possibility of critically delimiting within reason, and by means of reason itself, the difference between the legitimate claims of knowledge and the metaphysical illusion that oversteps the bounds of all possible experience.
TEXT
Critique of Pure Reason. Immanuel Kant, trans Guyer and Wood. Cambridge
The text is available at “Black Sun Books” (2455 Hilyard, 484-3777), on the east side of Hilyard Street, just south of 24th and Hilyard (behind Sundance Grocery near Taste of India).
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Phil 433 (undergraduate): Participation in class discussion. Two papers, 6-8 pages in length, double-spaced. The first paper will be due at the mid-term, October 28; the second paper will be due on December 11.
Phil 533 (graduate): Participation in class discussion. One paper, 15-20 pages in length, double spaced, due December 11. Paper proposals, 1-2 pages in length, are due November 6.
Disability Accommodations: If you have a documented disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course please make arrangements to meet with me within the first two weeks of the course. Please request a letter from Disability Services verifying your disability and stating your needed accommodations.
Assigned Reading date pages* text/topic Week One M 9.30 99-105 Preface A 106-124 Preface B 672-690 The Canon of Pure Reason
W 10.2 127-135 Introduction A 136-152 Introduction B
Week Two M 10.7 155-171 Transcendental Aesthetic A 172-192 Transcendental Aesthetic B
W 10.9 193-218 On the Clue to the Discovery
Week Three M 10.14 219-244 Transcendental Deduction A
W 10.16 245-266 Transcendental Deduction B
Week Four M 10.21 267-294 Schematism
W 10.23 295-321 Analogies of Experience
Week Five M 10.28 321-337 Refutation of Idealism
W 10.30 338-384 Phenomena and Noumena Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection
Week Six M 11.4 384-410 Transcendental Dialectic
W 11.6 411-458 Paralogisms of Pure Reason
Week Seven M 11.11 459-495 The Antinomy of Pure Reason
W 11.13 496-519 Critical Decision
Week Eight M 11.18 520-550 Resolution of the Antinomy
W 11.20 551-569 The Ideal of Pure Reason On the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof
Week Nine M 11.25 569-589 Critique of Speculative Theology
W 11.27 590-623 Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic
Week Ten M 12.2 627-671 Transcendental Doctrine of Method Discipline of Pure Reason
W 12.4 691-704 Architectonic of Pure Reason History of Pure Reason
*pages listed here refer to the Cambridge translation of the Critique of Pure Reason
Translations and editions of KdrV: Critique of Pure Reason. Pluhar, Werner, translator. Hackett. Critique of Pure Reason. Paul Guyer & Allen W. Wood, translators. Cambridge. Critique of Pure Reason. Norman Kemp Smith. Macmillan. Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Meiner.
Other Important Works by Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Critique of Practical Reason. Critique of Judgment. Religion Within the Bounds of Mere Reason.
Some Important Historical Sources: Fichte, Science of Knowledge. Cambridge. di Giovanni, George and Harris, H. S. Between Kant and Hegel. Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism. SUNY. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Faith and knowledge. SUNY. ---. Lectures on the History of Philosophy. University of Nebraska. Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature Clarendon Press. Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Other Writings. Cambridge. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. New Essays on Human Understanding. Cambridge. Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Oxford. Reinhold, Karl Leonhard. Letters on the Kantian philosophy. Cambridge. Schelling, The Grounding of Positive Philosophy. SUNY. Watkins, Eric, ed. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Background Source Materials. Cambridge.
Commentaries, Interpretations, Historical Studies Adorno, Theodor W. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Stanford. Allison, Henry E. Kant’s Transcendental Idealism. Yale. Beck, Lewis White. Early German Philosophy; Kant and His Predecessors. Belknap Press. Bowman, Brady. The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction. Harvard. Buroker, Jill Vance. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction. Cambridge. Cassirer, Ernst. Kant’s Life and Thought. Yale. Deleuze, Gilles. Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties. University of Minnesota Gardner, Sebastian. Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. Routledge. Guyer, Paul. Kant and the Claims of Knowledge. Cambridge. Heidegger, Martin. Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. Indiana University. Henrich, Dieter. Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism. Harvard. Henrich, Dieter. The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kant’s Philosophy. Harvard. Höffe, Otfried. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason The Foundation of Modern Philosophy. Springer. Kuehn, Manfred. Kant: A Biography. Cambridge. Langton, Rae. Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things In Themselves. Oxford. Pinkard, Terry. German Philosophy: 1760 - 1860 ; the Legacy of Idealism. Cambridge. Pippin, Robert B. Kant’s Theory of Form: An Essay on the Critique of Pure Reason. Yale. Sallis, John. The Gathering of Reason. SUNY. ---, Spacings—of Reason and Imagination in Texts of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. University of Chicago. Strawson, P. F. The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Routledge. Van Cleve, James. Problems from Kant. Oxford. Watkins, Eric. Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality. Cambridge. Zizek, Slavoj. Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology. Duke University.