Kant

Andrew Ward is lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.

• PrefaceAbbreviations and ConventionsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Critique of Pure ReasonSection I: A general introduction to Kant’s Copernican revolution in Philosophy, and its relation to scientific knowledge and transcendent metaphysicsSection II: The division of judgments, and the status of mathematics and natural scienceSection III: The Transcendental Aesthetic: the nature of space and timeSection IV: The Transcendental Analytic: how our experience – our knowledge of objects in space and time – is made possibleSection V: The Transcendental Dialectic: why no theoretical knowledge in transcendent metaphysics is possiblePart II: Critique of Practical ReasonSection I: The Analytic of Pure Practical Reason: reason not sentiment as the foundation of morality, and how freedom of the will is proved Section II: The Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason: how morality establishes the existence of God and the immortality of the soulSection III: The importance of Kant’s Copernican revolution to his moral philosophyPart III: Critique of JudgmentSection I: The Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment: defending a third way between an empiricist and a traditional rationalist theory of tasteSection II: The Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment: why the judgment of taste and our attitude to natural beauty require a Copernican revolution in aestheticsSection III: A Kantian or Human theory of taste?Section IV: Teleology and the Principle of the Finality of NatureBibliographyIndex

"In this excellent introduction to all three of Kant's Critques', Andrew Ward's aim is to put idealism back in its rightful place in our understanding of Kant. His writing is forceful, engaging and admirably clear, and his exegesis is, in my view, fundamentally correct."-- Professor Adrian Moore, St Hugh's College, Oxford