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TOPICS KEY DATES
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1 Introduction to the Course Lecture  

2 Introduction to the Critique Lecture  

3 Space (Transcendental Aesthetic) Lecture  

Space (Transcendental Aesthetic)

4 Lecture  
(cont.)

The Transcendental Deduction of

5 Lecture  
the Categories

Space, and the Transcendental Short exercise

6 Discussion
Deductions due

7 Substance and the First Analogy Lecture  

Substance and the First Analogy

8 Discussion  
(cont.)

9 Causality and the Second Analogy Lecture  

Causality (cont.) and Community

10 Lecture  
(The Third Analogy)

Causality and Community, the

11 Discussion  
Second and Third Analogies

12 Phenomena and Noumena Lecture  

13 Phenomena and Noumena (cont.) Discussion  

First essay
14 Kant's "Refutations" of Idealism Lecture
due

Idealism, Realism, and Ignorance

15 Discussion  
of Things in Themselves

The "Problem of Affection," and

16 Lecture  
Three Kantian Theses

The "Problem of Affection," and

17 Discussion  
Three Kantian Theses (cont.)

The Development of Kantian

18 Lecture  
Humility

The Development of Kantian

19 Discussion  
Humility (cont.)
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20 Substance Revisited Lecture  

21 Substance Revisited (cont.) Discussion  

Primary and Secondary Qualities

22 Lecture  
in Kant

Primary and Secondary Qualities Second essay

23 Discussion
in Kant (cont.) due

Primary Qualities and Scientific

24 Discussion  
Realism

25 Idealism and Realism Revisited Lecture  

Idealism and Realism Revisited

26 Discussion  
(cont.)

2 sessions per week

Main Readings
Text
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787). Edited by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood. New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0521657296.
You may alternatively use the older edition, translated and edited by Norman Kemp Smith.

Commentaries
Allison, Henry. Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense. Revised ed. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0300102666.
Bennett, Jonathan. Kant's Analytic. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1966. ISBN: 0521093899.
Gardner, Sebastian. Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999.
ISBN: 041511909X.
Guyer, Paul. Kant and the Claims of Knowledge. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN:
0521337720.
Langton, Rae. Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves. New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 2001. ISBN: 0199243174.
Strawson, P. F. The Bounds of Sense: an Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. New York, NY:
Methuen, 1975. ISBN: 0416291007.
van Cleve, James. Problems from Kant. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN:
0195083229.

Readings by Session
The A/B pagination featured below for Kant's Critique of Pure Reason signifies the page numbers in the
first (A) and second (B) editions of the text.

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TOPICS READINGS
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Introduction to the
1  
Course
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TOPICS READINGS
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Kant. Critique. A1/B1-A16/B30.
Introduction to the
2 Gardner. Guidebook. Chapter 3.
Critique
van Cleve. Problems. Chapter 2.

Kant. Critique. A19/B34-B73.
Space
3 (Transcendental Gardner. Guidebook. Chapter 4.
Aesthetic)
van Cleve. Problems. Chapter 3

Space Kant.  Critique. A19/B34-B73.

4 (Transcendental
Aesthetic) (cont.) van Cleve. Problems. Chapter 4.

The Transcendental Kant. Critique. A96-A130/B130-B179.

5 Deduction of the
Categories Gardner. Guidebook. pp. 135-165.

Space, and the

6 Transcendental  
Deductions

Substance and the

7 Kant. Critique. A182/B224-A189/B232.
First Analogy

Substance and the

8  
First Analogy (cont.)

Kant. Critique. B233-A211/B256.
Causality and the
9
Second Analogy
Strawson. The Bounds of Sense (excerpt).

Causality (cont.)and
10 Community (The Kant. Critique. A211/B257-A218-B265.
Third Analogy)

Causality and
Community, the
11  
Second and Third
Analogies

Phenomena and
12 Kant. Critique. A236/B295-A260/B315.
Noumena

Phenomena and
13  
Noumena (cont.)
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TOPICS READINGS
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Kant. Critique. A366/B274-A380/B279.
Kant's "Refutations"
14
of Idealism
Gardner. Guidebook. Chapter 8.

Idealism, Realism,
and Ignorance of
15  
Things in
Themselves

Kant.  Critique. The Amphiboly of Concepts

of Reflection, A265/B321-A268/B324 and
The "Problem of A277/B233-A278-B334.
Affection," and
16
Three Kantian Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapters 1 and 2.
Theses
Allison, Henry. Transcendental
Idealism. Chapter 1.

The "Problem of
Affection," and
17  
Three Kantian
Theses (cont.)

Kant. Critique.  The Amphiboly of Concepts

of Reflection, A265/B321-A268/B324 and
A277/B233-A278-B334. First Analogy,
A182/B224-A189/B232.

The Development of Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. The

18
Kantian Humility Monadology  (excerpts).

Kant. New Exposition on the First Principles

of Metaphysical Knowledge (excerpt).

Langton. Kantian Humility . Chapters 3-6.

The Development of
19 Kantian Humility  
(cont.)

20 Substance Revisited Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapter 2.

Substance Revisited
21  
(cont.)
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TOPICS READINGS
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Kant. Prolegomena (excerpt).

Kant. Critique. Postulates of Empirical

Thought, A225/B273-A266-B218. Axioms of
Intuition and Anticipations of Perception,
A162/B202-A176/B218.

Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human

Understanding (1689) (excerpt). Edited by P.
Nidditch. New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 1975. ISBN: 1406790273.
Primary and
22 Secondary Qualities Bennett, Jonathan.  Locke, Berkeley, Hume:
in Kant Central Themes   (excerpt). New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 1971. ISBN:
0198243529.

Evans, Gareth. "Things Without the Mind."

In Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented
to P. F. Strawson. Edited by Zak van
Straaten. New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 1980, pp. 76-116. ISBN:
019824603X.

Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapters 7 and 8.

Primary and
23 Secondary Qualities  
in Kant

Kant. The Kant-Eberhard
Controversy (excerpt). Translated with a
Primary Qualities commentary by Henry E. Allison. Baltimore,
24 and Scientific MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
Realism ISBN: 0801814561.

Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapters 8 and 9.

Kant. Critique . Transcendental Aesthetic,
A19/B34-B73. Refutation of Idealism, A366-
Idealism and
25 A380.
Realism Revisited
Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapter 10.

Idealism and
26 Realism Revisited  
(cont.)

Additional Readings
Beck, Lewis White. Essays on Kant and Hume. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978.
Bencivenga, Ermanno. Kant's Copernican Revolution. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Bennett, Jonathan. Kant's Dialectic. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
———. Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1971. ISBN:
0198243529.
Berkson, W. Fields of Force. New York, NY: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.
Blackburn, Simon. "Filling In Space." Analysis 50 (1990): 62-5. Reprinted in Essays in Quasi-realism. New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993.
 Boscovich, R. J. A Theory of Natural Philosophy (1763). Translated by J. M. Child.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966. ISBN: 0262520036.
Brittan, Gordon. Kant's Theory of Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Buroker, Jill Vance. Space and Incongruence. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1981.
 Costabel, Pierre. "Newton's and Leibniz' Dynamics." In The Annus Mirabilis of Sir
Isaac Newton. Edited by R. Palter. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970. ISBN: 0262160358.
Dryer, D. P. Kant's Solution for Verification in Metaphysics. London, UK: George Allen and Unwin, 1966.
Evans, Gareth. "Things Without the Mind." In Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P. F. Strawson.
Edited by Zak van Straaten. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 76-116. ISBN:
019824603X.
Faraday, Michael. "A Speculation touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter." In Experimental
Researches in Electricity. Vol. II. London, UK: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1844.
Foster, John. The Case for Idealism. New York, NY: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.
Friedman, Michael. Kant and the Exact Sciences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Furth, Montgomery. "Monadology." In Leibniz: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Harry Frankfurt.
New York, NY: Doubleday, 1972, pp. 99-136. ISBN: 0385033087.
Harré, R., and E. H. Madden. Causal Powers. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1975.
Heimann, P. M., and J. E. McGuire. "Newtonian Forces and Lockean Powers: Concepts of Matter in
Eighteenth Century Thought." Chapter 3 in Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Philadelphia, PA:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971, pp. 233-306.
Heimsoeth, Heinz. "Metaphysical Motives in the Development of Critical Idealism." In Kant: Disputed
Questions. Edited by Moltke Gram. Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1967, pp. 158-99.
Hesse, Mary. Forces and Fields. London, UK: Thomas Nelson, 1961.
Humberstone, I. L. "Intrinsic/Extrinsic." Synthese 108 (1996): 205-267. (Accepted in 1992.)
Jackson, Frank, Robert Pargetter, and Elizabeth Prior. "Three Theses about Dispositions." American
Philosophical Quarterly 19 (1982): 251-7.
Jammer, Max. Concepts of Force. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.
Kant, Immanuel. Collected Works. Gesammelte Schriften. Edited by Königlich Preussischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften. Berlin and Leipzig, Germany: de Gruyter, 1922. (Hereafter Ak.)
———. Principiorum primorum cognitionis metaphysicae nova dilucidatio (1755). Ak. Vol. 1. English
Translation: "A New Exposition of the First Principles of Metaphysical Knowledge." In Kant's Latin
Writings: Translations, Commentaries and Notes. Edited by L. W. Beck et al. New York, NY: P. Lang,
1986.
———. Monadologia physica (1756). Ak. Vol. 1. English Translation: "Physical Monadology." In Kant's
Latin Writings: Translations, Commentaries and Notes. Edited by L. W. Beck et al. New York, NY: P. Lang,
1986.
———. Von dem ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden in Raume (1768). Ak. Vol. 2. English
Translation: Kant's Inaugural Dissertation and Early Writings on Space. Edited by J. Handyside. Chicago,
IL: Open Court, 1928.
———. De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis (1770). Ak. Vol. 2. English Translation:
"On the Form and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World (The Inaugural Dissertation)." In Kant:
Selected Pre-Critical Writings. Edited by G.B. Kerferd and D.E. Walford. Manchester, UK: Manchester
University Press, 1968.
———. Reflexionen zur Metaphysik. Ak. Vols. 17 and 18.
———. Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik (1783). Ak. Vol. 4. English
Translation: Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics. Translated and edited by Gary Hatfield. New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
———. Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft (1786). Ak. Vol. 4. English
Translation: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Translated by J. Ellington. Indianapolis, IN:
Library of Liberal Arts, 1970.
———. "Über eine Entdeckung nach der alle neue Kritik der reinen Vernunft durch eine ältere entbehrlich
gemacht werden soll" (1790). Ak. Vol. 4. English Translation: "On a Discovery According to which Any
New Critique of Pure Reason Has Been Made Superfluous by an Earlier One." In The Kant-Eberhard
Controversy. Translated with a commentary by Henry Allison. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1973. ISBN: 0801814561.
Kemp Smith, Norman. Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Macmillan,
1923.
Langsam, Harold. "Kant, Hume, and Our Ordinary Concept of Causation." Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 54 (1994): 625-647.
Langton, Rae, and David Lewis. "Defining 'Intrinsic'." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1998):
333-45. Reprinted in Lewis. Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology. New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 1998.
Laywine, Alison. Kant's Early Metaphysics and the Origins of the Critical Philosophy. Vol. 3. North
American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy. Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview. 1993.
Leibniz, G. W. Die philosophischen Schriften. 7 vols. Edited by C. I. Gerhardt. Berlin, Germany: 1875-90.
Reprinted: Hildesheim, Germany: G. Olms, 1960-1.
———. Philosophical Papers and Letters. Translated and edited by L. Loemker. Dordrecht, Netherlands:
Reidel, 1969.
———. New Essays on Human Understanding (1765). Translated and edited by P. Remnant and J.
Bennett. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
———. Philosophical Essays. Translated and edited by R. Ariew and D. Garber. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett,
1989.
Lewis, David. "Ramseyan Humility." Forthcoming in Naturalism and Conceptual Analysis. Edited by David
Braddon-Mitchell and Robert Nola. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). Edited by P. Nidditch. New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 1975. ISBN: 1406790273.
Mackie, J. L. Problems from Locke. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Mates, Benson. The Philosophy of Leibniz: Metaphysics and Language. New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 1986.
Melnick, Arthur. Space, Time, and Thought in Kant. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, 1989.
Mondadori, Fabrizio. "Solipsistic Perception in a World of Monads." In Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive
Essays. Edited by Michael Hooker. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1982, pp. 21-44. ISBN:
0816610207.
Paton, H. J. Kant's Metaphysic of Experience. London, UK: Allen and Unwin, 1936.
Polonoff, Irving. Force, Cosmos, Monads and Other Themes of Kant's Early Thought. Bonn, Germany:
Kant-Studien Ergänzungsheft Nr. 107, 1973.
Smith, A. D. "Of Primary and Secondary Qualities." The Philosophical Review 99 (1990): 221-54.
Shoemaker, Sydney. "Causality and Properties." In Time and Cause. Edited by Peter van Inwagen.
Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1980.
Strawson, P. F. Individuals. London, UK: Methuen, 1959.
———. "Reply to Evans." In Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P. F. Strawson. Edited by Zak
van Straaten. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 273-82. ISBN: 019824603X.
Van Cleve, James. "Putnam, Kant, and Secondary Qualities." Philosophical Papers 24 (1995): 83-109.
Watkins, Eric. Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Williams, L. P. Michael Faraday: A Biography. New York, NY: Chapman and Hall, 1965.
———. The Origins of Field Theory. New York, NY: Random House, 1966.
Wilson, Margaret. "The 'Phenomenalisms' of Berkeley and Kant." In Self and Nature in Kant's Philosophy.
Edited by Allen Wood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984, pp. 157-73. ISBN: 0801416108.