Understanding Kant's critique of pure reason Collins, Arthur W. Primary Author mixed material bibliography California University of California Press 1999 monographic en English

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xix. ind. 220 p.; 23 cm Arthur Collins's succinct, revisionist exposition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason brings a new clarity to this notoriously difficult text. Until recently most readers, ascribing broadly Cartesian assumptions to Kant, have concluded that the Critique advances an idealist phi losophy because Kant calls it transcendental idealism and because the work abounds in apparent confirmations of that interpretation. Collins maintains not only that this reading of Kant is false but also that it conceals Kant's real achievements. To counter it, he addresses the themes and passages in the Critique that seem to require an idealist thesis and shows how they may be better under stood without ascribing any idealist philosophy to Kant. His account coheres with Kant's explicit "refutations" of idealism, it fits Kanti rejection of the imputation of idealism to him by early critics and readers, and it validates Kant's contention that the second edition of the Critique changes the expression but not the doctrine of the first. Kant, Imanuel Knowledge Reason Causation 1210520214986 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 121 Col p 02202200520 Non Fiction 121 Col p possible_experience.jpg 97084 2022-02-05 08:38:58 2022-03-08 15:04:38 machine generated