This book assesses and defends Kant's Critical epistemology, and the rich yet neglected resources it provides for understanding and resolving fundamental issues regarding human experience, perceptual judgment, empirical knowledge and cognitive sciences.
Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. He has edited 7 and authored 8 books, including Hegel's Civic Republicanism: Integrating Natural Law with Kant's Moral Constructivism (Routledge, 2020) and Realism, Science, and Pragmatism (Routledge, 2014).
Part I: Epistemological Context
1. Epistemology, Cognitive (In)Capacities and Thought Experiments
2. Kant, Wittgenstein, and Transcendental Chaos
3. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Analytic Philosophy
Part II: Kant's Critical Epistemology
4. Constructing Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
5. Consciousness and its Transcendental Conditions: Kant's Anti-Cartesian Revolt
6. Kant's Analytic of Principles
7. Kant's Dynamical Principles: The Analogies of Experience
8. How Does Kant Prove that We Perceive, and Not Merely Imagine, Physical Objects?
9. Kant, Causal Judgment, and Locating the Purloined Letter
Part III: Further Ramifications
10. Kant's Cognitive Semantics, Newton's Rule Four of Natural Philosophy, and Scientific Realism Today
11. How Kant Justifies Freedom of Agency (without Transcendental Idealism)
12. Kant's Two Models of Human Action
13. Mind, Language, and Behaviour: Kant's Critical Cautions Contra Contemporary Internalism and Causal Naturalism