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Possible Experience: Understanding Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Possible Experience: Understanding Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Collins, Arthur

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0520214994
ISBN13: 9780520214996
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 1 1999
Pages: 219
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.93 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Arthur Collins's succinct, revisionist exposition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason brings a new clarity to this notoriously difficult text. Until recently most readers, ascribing broadly Cartesian assumptions to Kant, have concluded that the Critique advances an idealist philosophy, because Kant calls it transcendental idealism and because the work abounds in apparent confirmations of that interpretation.

Collins maintains not only that this reading of Kant is false but also that it conceals Kant's real achievements. To counter it, he addresses the themes and passages in the Critique that seem to require an idealist thesis and shows how they may be better understood without ascribing any idealist philosophy to Kant. His account coheres with Kant's explicit refutations of idealism, it fits Kant's rejection of the imputation of idealism to him by early critics and readers, and it validates Kant's contention that the second edition of the Critique changes the expression but not the doctrine of the first.

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