PHI 336 Kant

Reading List for PHI 336

Texts Recommended for Purchase:

Kant, Immanuel (1998): Critique of Pure Reason translated by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Primary Texts:

Kant, Immanuel (1998): Critique of Pure Reason translated by P.Guyer and A. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) Kant, Immanuel (1983): Critique of Pure Reason translated by N.Kemp Smith (London, McMillan)

Kant, Immanuel (1992) Lectures on Logic, ed. M.Young, (Cambridge, Cambridge UP) Kant, Immanuel (1992) Theoretical Philosophy 1755-1770, ed. D.Walford, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) Kant, Immanuel (1992) Correspondence, ed. A.Zweig, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) Kant, Immanuel (2000) Critique of the Power of Judgement, ed. P.Guyer, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) Kant, Immanuel (1977) Prolegomena to any future metaphysics that will be able to come forward as science translated by P.Carus and J.Ellington (Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Company)

Introductory Works / Background Reading and Abbreviations:

Allison, Henry (1983): Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defence (New Haven, Yale University Press) KTI (recommended) Bennett, Jonathan (1966): Kant’s Analytic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) Bird, Graham (1962): Kant’s Theory of Knowledge (London: Routledge) Ewing, A. C. (1950): A Short Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (London: Methuen) Gardner, Sebastian (1999): Kant and the „Critique of Pure Reason“ (London: Routledge) KCP (recommended) Gerhardt, Volker/Horstmann, Rolf/Schumacher, Ralph (eds): Kant und die Berliner Aufklaerung, Proceedings of the IX. International Kant Congress (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter) P Guyer, Paul (1987): Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (New York: Cambridge University Press) (recommended) Guyer, Paul (1992): The Cambridge Companion to Kant (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) CC Hanna, Robert (2001): Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford, Clarendon) Longuenesse, Béatrice (1998): Kant and the Capacity to Judge, (Princeton, Princeton University Press) Paton, Herbert, James (1936): Kant’s Metaphysics of Experience (London: Allen &Unwin) Rosenberg, Jay (2005): Accessing Kant (Oxford, Oxford UP) Schaper, Eva and Vossenkuhl, Wilhelm: Reading Kant (Oxford: Basil Blackwell) Strawson, Peter (1989): The Bounds of Sense. An Essay on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (London: Routledge) BS (recommended) Vance Buroker, Jill (2006): Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge, Cambridge UP) Walker, Ralph (1982): Kant on Pure Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Walker, Ralph: Kant. The Arguments of the Philosophers (London: Routledge, 1978)

Reading List by Topic

How to use this list:

For each topic, you are expected to read all the set passages from the Critique (reading the set passage for the seminars particularly carefully). However, as there is a lot of secondary literature on Kant’s Critique, and most commentaries will cover most topics, you are not expected to read all of the secondary sources listed for each topic. Ideally, you should read at least two secondary sources each week for each topic. You may find it useful to look at different commentators in different weeks, so that you are in a position to consult those that you find the most accessible, stimulating, controversial etc. by the time you write your essays and prepare for your exams. You may also use secondary literature not listed here in preparation for your essays and exams, which you may come across in footnotes etc. Notes on some secondary sources: Strawson’s The Bounds of Sense is a classic commentary and has been very influential. You should definitely read some of it at some point during the course. Allison’s Kant’s Transcendental Idealism has been very influential as a book that tries to defend Kant’s transcendental idealism and it is also recommended that you read some of it during the course. Gardner’s Kant and the „Critique of Pure Reason“ is a more recent commentary that is very accessible and explains Kant’s arguments very clearly. If you want to buy a commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason, Gardner’s book is highly recommended. Paul Guyer’s Kant and the Claims of Knowledge can be a bit lengthy and hard to read, but is worth the effort, especially if you intend to write on a topic in your essay or exam.

Introduction (Lectures 1 - 3) Kant Critique of Pure Reason (CPR), Introduction, B1-B29; The Table of Contents, Sensibility and Understanding B74/A50 - B76/A52 Kant The Letter to Marcus Herz, 21.2.1772, Correspondence, pp. 132-139 H. Allison KTI, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-34 S. Gardner KCP, pp. 51-64 and pp. 87-114 R. Walker Kant, Chapter One, pp. 1-13 R.Pippin „Kant on the Spontaneity of the Mind“, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 17 (1987), 449-475. The Transcendental Aesthetics: Kant’s Theory of Space and Time (Lectures 4 - 7) Kant CPR, Transcendental Aesthetics, B 33/A19 - B58/A41 Kant Theoretical Philosophy 1755-1770:„ Concerning the Ultimate Ground of the Differentiation of Directions in Space“, pp. 373-417 H. Allison KTI, Chapter 5, pp. 81-114 B.Falkenburg: „Incongruent Counterparts: Kant’s 1768 Argument against Relationism“, in P, volume 2, 11-18 S. Gardner KCP, pp. 65-86 P. Guyer Kant and the Claims of Knowledge, Chapters 15 and 16, pp. 333-370 R. P. Horstmann „Transcendental Idealism and the Representation of Space“, in E. Schaper and W. Vossenkuhl (eds.) Reading Kant, pp. 168-176 P.Kitcher: „The Trendelenburg Objection: A Century of Misunderstanding Kant’s Rejection of Metaphysics“, in: P, volume 2, pp.599-609 C. Parsons „The Transcendental Aesthetic“, in P. Guyer (ed.) CC, pp. 101-122 P. F. Strawson BS, Part II, Section I, pp. 47-71 R. Walker Kant, Chapters Three and Four, pp. 28-59

Kant’s Philosophy of Geometry (Lecture 8) Kant CPR, Transcendental Aesthetic, B40 - 41, The Discipline of Pure Reason in Dogmatic Use, B740/A712 - B747/A719; Axioms of Intuition, B202/A162 - B207/A166

J. Hintikka: „Kant on the Mathematical Method“, in: C.Posy: Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1992, pp.21-42 P.Kitcher: „Kant and the Foundation s of Mathematics“, in: C.Posy: Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1992, pp 109 - 133 P.Strawson BS, Chapters 1 (Section 4) and 5, pp.62 - 68, 277 - 292 M.Wolff „Geometrie und Erfahrung“, in: P, volume 1, pp 209-233 (Cf. My short english summary of the article in the European Journal of Philosophy 2005)

Idealism, Realism and Things-in-themselves (Lectures 9-10) Kant CPR, The Fourth Paralogism, A 366 - A 380, Transcendental Idealism as the Key to Solving the Cosmological Dialectic, B518/A490 - B524/A497; Phaenomena and Noumena, A 248 - 256; B306-312 H.Allison KTI, 14-35 F.H.Jacobi Supplement to: David Hume or Idealim and Realism, in: F.H. Jacobi: Main Philosophical writings and the Novel Allwill, translated and edited by George di Giovanni, McGill-Queen’s University Press 1995, pp tba S.Gardner KCP, 87-114, 269-303 „The Argument for Transcendental Realism“, in: P, volume 2, pp. 549-557 P.Strawson BS, Chapter 4 pp 235 - 275

Concepts, Judgement and Logic (Lecture 11)

Kant The Jaesche Logic §6, §§ 17 - 19; CPR, On the Logical Use of the Understanding, B92/A67 - B94/A69; On Logic in General/On Transcendental Logic B74/A50 - B82/A57

Ginsborg, H. „Thinking the Particular as Contained under the Universal“ in: Kukla, R. (ed): Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy, Cambridge, CUP, 2006, pp.35 - 60 Longuenesse, B: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, Princeton, Princeton University Press 1998 pp. 82 - 166

The Transcendental Deduction ( Introduction: Lecture 12, A-Edition: Lectures 13 - 16; B-Edition: Lectures 17 - 18)

Kant CPR, Of the Principles of a Transcendental Deduction in General B116/A84 - B119/A87, The Table of Judgements B95/A70, The Table of Categories B106/A80, The Deduction in the A-Edition A95- A129; The Deduction in the B-Edition B129 - B168 H.Allison KTI, pp 115-172 K.Ameriks: „Kant’s Transcendental Deduction as a Regressive Argument“ in K.Ameriks: Interpreting Kant’s Critiques, Oxford, Clarendon Press 2001, 51- 63 A.B. Dickerson: Kant on representation and Objectivity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (B-Deduction) S.Gardner: KCP, pp 115-165 P.Guyer: Kant and the Claims to Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1987, pp 73-154 P.Guyer: „The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories“, in: P.Guyer (ed.) CC, pp123 -160 D.Henrich: „Identity and Objectivitiy: An Inquiry into Kant’s Transcendental Deduction“, in D.Henrich: The Unity of reason, (ed.Velkley), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994, 123 - 208 (recommended) „The Identity of the Subject in the Transcendental Deduction“, in E.Schaper, W.Vossenkuhl (eds): Reading Kant, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989, 250-280 „Kant’s Notion of a Deduction and the Methodological Background of the First Critique“, in E.Förster (ed): Kant’s Transcendental Deductions, Stanford University Press 1989, 29-46

R. Howell Kant’s Transcendental Deduction, Dordrecht, Kluwer 1992 P.Strawson BS, pp 85-117 R.P.Wolff Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1963 pp.63-150 (A-Deduction)

Objectivity and Communicability (Lecture 19) Kant Critique of the Power of Judgement, §§ 9, 21, 39, 40 (pp 102-104, 122-123, 171-176) Letter to Beck, July 1, 1794, Correspondence , pp. 481-482 H.Ginsborg Kant’s Aesthetics and Teleology, Sec 1&2, Stanford Emcyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/ P.Guyer Kant and the Claims of Taste, Cambridge, CUP 1997 (2nd. Edition), Chapters 4 and 8 (pp 106-141, 248-273)

The Transcendental Dialectic (Lectures 20-22) Kant CPR, On the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of God’s Existence B620/A592 - B630/A602, The Second Paralogism A351 - A360

H.Allison KTI, Chapter 13, pp.272-293 K.Ameriks Kant’s Theory of the Mind, Chapters 1-4, pp.1 - 176 J.Bennett: Kant’s Dialectic, London 1974, pp tba S.Gardner KCP, pp.209 - 268 M.Grier: „Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics“, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-metaphysics/ G.Hatfield „Empirical, Rational and Transcendental Psychology“, inP.Guyer (ed.) CC, pp.200-227 P.Kitcher: „Kant’s Paralogisms“, in: Philosophical Review 91, 1982 p.515-547 J.Rosenberg „„I think“: Some Reflections on Kant’s Paralogisms“, in: Midwest Studies in Philosophy 10, 1986, p.503-530 P.Strawson: „Kant’s Paralogisms: Self-Conciousness and the ‘Outside Observer’“ in: P.F.Strawson: Entity, Identity and other Essays, pp 244-251 A. Wood Kant’s Rational Theology, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press 1978/88, pp 95 - 147