Kant

This course is based around a close and critical reading of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. We concentrate on assessing Kant's response to the possibility that the world studied by science is in some sense mind-dependent and/or mind-constructed. More specifically, we consider his distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge and analytic and synthetic judgments, his argument for synthetic a priori truths, his transcendental deduction of the categories and his transcendental idealism.