Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason

Author:   Marcus Willaschek (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
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Pages:   308
Publication Date:   29 November 2018
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Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason


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Author:   Marcus Willaschek (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781108472630


ISBN 10:   110847263
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   29 November 2018
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. From Reason to Metaphysics: 1. Kant's conceptions of reason and metaphysics; 2. The logical use of reason and the logical maxim; 3. The supreme principle of pure reason; 4. Understanding the transition passage (A307–8/B364); 5. The transition from the logical maxim to the supreme principle of pure reason; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. The Other Side of the Transcendental Dialectic: 6. The system of transcendental ideas; 7. The paralogisms and antinomy arguments as 'necessary inferences of reason'; 8. Reason and metaphysics in the transcendental ideal and the appendix; 9. Transcendental realism and Kant's critique of speculative metaphysics; Conclusion to Part II.

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Advance praise: 'With remarkable philosophical clarity and impressive textual mastery, Marcus Willaschek presents a detailed interpretation of Kant's account of how traditional metaphysical questions necessarily arise from the very nature of reason. This major new book makes an extraordinarily important contribution to our understanding of Kant's philosophy, both theoretical and practical.' Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego Advance praise: `With remarkable philosophical clarity and impressive textual mastery, Marcus Willaschek presents a detailed interpretation of Kant's account of how traditional metaphysical questions necessarily arise from the very nature of reason. This major new book makes an extraordinarily important contribution to our understanding of Kant's philosophy, both theoretical and practical.' Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego


'With remarkable philosophical clarity and impressive textual mastery, Marcus Willaschek presents a detailed interpretation of Kant's account of how traditional metaphysical questions necessarily arise from the very nature of reason. This major new book makes an extraordinarily important contribution to our understanding of Kant's philosophy, both theoretical and practical.' Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego `With remarkable philosophical clarity and impressive textual mastery, Marcus Willaschek presents a detailed interpretation of Kant's account of how traditional metaphysical questions necessarily arise from the very nature of reason. This major new book makes an extraordinarily important contribution to our understanding of Kant's philosophy, both theoretical and practical.' Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego


Advance praise: 'With remarkable philosophical clarity and impressive textual mastery, Marcus Willaschek presents a detailed interpretation of Kant's account of how traditional metaphysical questions necessarily arise from the very nature of reason. This major new book makes an extraordinarily important contribution to our understanding of Kant's philosophy, both theoretical and practical.' Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego


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Marcus Willaschek is Professor of Modern Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He is the author of Praktische Vernunft: Handlungstheorie und Moralbegründung bei Kant (1992) and Der Mentale Zugang Zur Welt: Realismus, Skeptizismus und Intentionalität (2003), and an editor of the three-volume Kant-Lexikon (2017).

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