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The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason. from 2011-03-16T16:09:27
Lecture 8/8. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge. When rightly employed, the perceptual and cogniti...
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The"Self"and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception from 2011-03-16T16:08:14
Lecture 7/8. Kant argues that: "The synthetic unity of consciousness is... an objective condition of all knowledge. It is not merely a condition that I myself require in knowing an object, but is a...
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Concepts, judgement and the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories from 2011-03-16T16:07:13
Lecture 6/8. Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The conditions necessary for the knowledge of an object require a priori categories ...
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Idealisms and their refutations from 2011-03-16T16:04:13
Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in ...
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How are a priori synthetic judgements possible? from 2011-03-16T16:03:12
Lecture 4/8. Kant claims that, "our sense representation is not a representation of things in themselves, but of the way in which they appear to us. Hence it follows that the propositions of geomet...
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Space, time and the"Analogies of Experiences" from 2011-03-16T16:02:03
Lecture 3/8. Kant's so-called "Copernican" revolution in metaphysics begins with the recognition of the observer's contribution to the observation. Thus, to the extent that Hume's empiricism restri...
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The broader philosophical context from 2011-03-16T16:00:46
Lecture 2/8. The significant advances in physics in the 17th century stood in vivid contrast to the stagnation of traditional metaphysics, but why should metaphysics be conceived as a "science" in ...
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Just what is Kant's"project"? from 2011-03-16T15:59:52
Lecture 1/8. Both sense and reason are limited. Kant must identify the proper mission and domain of each, as well as the manner in which their separate functions come to be integrated in what is fi...
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