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Kant's Metaphysic of Experience, Vol 2

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The standard work on this part of Kant's philosophy. In this remarkable exposition, Paton succeeds in meticulously deconstructing the text of the Critique of Pure Reason. Unlike previous commentators on Kant (Kemp Smith, Adickes & Vaihinger), who viewed the Critique as an inconsistent & disunified patchwork, Paton demonstrates its unity, coherence & clarity. The result is a text that encourages not only Kantian studies but also the reappraisal of Kant's standpoint for contemporary philosophy.
Vol. 1. Kant's problem
Appearance & reality
Synthetic a priori judgments
Space & time. Sense & sensibility
Space & time: the metaphysical exposition; transcendental exposition & conclusions; Kant's assumptions; Kant's conclusions
Formal & transcendental logic. Formal logic
Transcendental logic
Metaphysical deduction of the categories. Conception & judgement
Conception & synthesis
Metaphysical deduction
Categories
Transcendental deduction: introductory exposition. Problem
Method of solution
Provisional exposition
Threefold synthesis
Object & the concept
Apperception & the unity of nature
Transcendental object
Apperception & the categories
Affinity of appearances
Transcendental deduction of the categories. Progressive exposition
Regressive exposition
Understanding & nature
Objective deduction
Subjective deduction
Argument of the deduction
Factors in experience
Vol. 2. Schematism of the categories. Category & schema
Transcendental schemata
Significance of the schema
Principles of the understanding. Supreme principle of synthetic judgements
Principles of the understanding
Mathematical principles. Axioms of intuition
Anticipations of sense-perception
Analogies of experience. Principle of the analogies
Special character of the analogies
First analogy
Substance
Second analogy
Argument for causality
Causality & continuity
Third analogy
Postulates of empirical thought. Possibility
Actuality & necessity
Transcendental idealism. Empirical realism
Inner sense & self-knowledge
Self-knowledge & knowledge of objects
Transcendental use of concepts
Noumenon & transcendental object
Phenomena & noumena

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First published January 1, 1936

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H.J. Paton

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Herbert James Paton was Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow University from 1927 until 1937, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1935 to 1937. In 1937 he left Glasgow to become White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

Though best known for his philosophical writings, he spent some ten years in the Admiralty and Foreign Office dealing with emergent European states in the aftermath of the First World War. At the Peace Conference of 1919 he was a member of the British delegation which advised on the Polish settlement, about which he wrote in the six volume History of the Peace Conference of Paris.

Paton was an authority on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and his two-volume commentary on the first half of Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Kant's Metaphysic of Experience (1936) is an important work of philosophical scholarship.

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