Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. (Pages marked ‘A’ and ‘B’ are those in the 1st and 2nd edition, respectively; ‘GW’ indicates pages in the Guyer-Wood translation.)
8/28 | pref | prefaces (A vii–xxii, B vii–xliv; GW 99–124) |
8/31 | intro | introduction (B 1–30; GW 136–152) |
9/2 | aesthetic | §§1-7 (B 33-58; GW 172–184) |
9/4 | §8 (B 59–73; GW 185–192) | |
9/7 | categories | logic & and the table (B 74–116; GW 193–218) |
9/9 | transcendental deduction, 2nd ed. version (B 116–143; GW 219–226, 245–252) | |
9/11 | B deduction cont’d (B 144–169; GW 253–266) | |
9/14 | principles | schematism & principles (B 176–197; GW 271–283) |
9/16 | first analogy (B 197–202, 218–232; GW 283-286, 295–304) | |
9/18 | 2nd analogy (B 232–256; GW 304–316) | |
9/21 | refutation of idealism (B 274–294; GW 326–337) | |
9/23 | phenomena and noumena (B 294–315; GW 354–365) | |
9/25 | dialectic | ideas (B 349–396; GW 384–408) |
9/28 | paralogisms (B 396–432; GW 409–415, 445–458) | |
9/30 | 1st antinomy (B 432–475; GW 459–475) | |
10/2 | 3rd & resolution of 1st (B 472–479, 545–551, 556–560; GW 484-489, 525-528, 530-532) | |
10/5 | resolution of 3rd (B 560–586; GW 532–546) | |
10/7 | ideal of pure reason (B 596–619; GW 551-563) | |
10/9 | ontological and cosmological arguments (B 620–648; GW 563–578) | |
10/12 | regulative use of the ideas (B 671–696; GW 590–604) | |
10/14 | method | canon of pure reason (B 823-859; GW 672–690) |
midsemester break
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10/19 | Michelle Grier, “Kant on the Illusion of a Systematic Unity of Knowledge,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 14 (1997), pp. 1-28—on JSTOR at 27744728 | |
10/21 | cont’d | |
10/23 | student questions | |
10/26 | cont’d | |
10/28 | Derk Pereboom, “Kant on Transcendental Freedom,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 73 (2006), pp. 537-567—on JSTOR at 40041010 | |
10/30 | cont’d | |
11/2 | Andrew Chignell, “Kant’s Concepts of Justification,” Noûs, vol. 41 (2007), pp. 61-91—on EBSCO at AN 23984248 | |
11/4 | cont’d | |
11/6 | Manley Thompson, "Singular Terms and Intuitions in Kant’s Epistemology,” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 26 (1972), pp. 314-343—on JSTOR at 20126210 | |
11/9 | cont’d | |
11/11 | Daniel Dahlstrom, “Heidegger’s Kantian Turn: Notes to His Commentary on the ‘Kritik Der Reinen Vernunft’,” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 45 (1991), pp. 329-361—on JSTOR at 20129178 | |
11/13 | cont’d | |
11/16 | Onora O’Neill, “Kant on Reason and Religion,” in Grethe B. Peterson (ed.), The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, vol. 18 (University of Utah Press, 1997), pp. 267-308—PDF file on the Tanner Lectures website | |
11/18 | cont’d | |
11/20 | paper discussion 1 | |
Thanksgiving break
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11/30 | discussion 2 | |
12/2 | discussion 3 | |
12/4 | discussion 4 | |
12/7 | discussion 5 | |
12/9 | discussion 6 | |
12/11 | discussion 7 | |
exam week
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12/18 | Fri | final paper due |