Commentary to Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’

NORMAN KEMP SMITH was born in Dundee in 1872 and died in Edinburgh in 1958. Between 1919 and 1945 he was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. Among his books are New Studies in the Philosophy of Descartes, The Credibility of Divine Existence and his translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.SEBASTIAN GARDNER is lecturer in Philosophy at UCL. He is the Reviews Editor of the European Journal of Philosophy and the author of Fichte, Schelling and Early German Idealism, Kant and the 'Critique of Pure Reason' and Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis.

• New Introduction by Sebastian Gardner Introduction by Norman Kemp Smith The Critique of Pure Reason Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition The Transcendental Doctrine of Elements The Transcendental Aesthetic Space Time The Transcendental Logic The Transcendental Analytic The Analytic of Concepts The Clue to Discovery of all Pure Concepts of Understanding The Understanding The Analytic of Principles The Schematism of Pure Concepts of the Understanding System of all Principles of Pure Understanding On the Ground of the Distinction of all Objects Whatever into Phenomena and Noumena The Transcendental Dialectic The Concepts of Pure Reason The Dialectical Inferences of Pure Reason The Paralogisms of Pure Reason The Antimony of Pure Reason The Ideal of Pure Reason Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic The Transcendental Doctrine of Methods The Discipline of Pure Reason The Canon of Pure Reason The Architecture of Pure Reason The History of Pure Reason Index

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