Kant: The Three Critiques

Preface

Abbreviations and Conventions

Acknowledgments

Part I: Critique of Pure Reason

Section I: A general introduction to Kant’s Copernican revolution in Philosophy, and its relation to scientific knowledge and transcendent metaphysics

Section II: The division of judgments, and the status of mathematics and natural science

Section III: The Transcendental Aesthetic: the nature of space and time

Section IV: The Transcendental Analytic: how our experience – our knowledge of objects in space and time – is made possible

Section V: The Transcendental Dialectic: why no theoretical knowledge in transcendent metaphysics is possible

Part II: Critique of Practical Reason

Section I: The Analytic of Pure Practical Reason: reason not sentiment as the foundation of morality, and how freedom of the will is proved Section II: The Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason: how morality establishes the existence of God and the immortality of the soul

Section III: The importance of Kant’s Copernican revolution to his moral philosophy

Part III: Critique of Judgment

Section I: The Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment: defending a third way between an empiricist and a traditional rationalist theory of taste

Section II: The Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment: why the judgment of taste and our attitude to natural beauty require a Copernican revolution in aesthetics

Section III: A Kantian or Human theory of taste?

Section IV: Teleology and the Principle of the Finality of Nature

Bibliography

Index