Kant’s Critical Epistemology

Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Boğaziçi University, İstanbul. He has edited 7 and authored 8 books, including Hegel’s Civic Republicanism: Integrating Natural Law with Kant’s Moral Constructivism (Routledge, 2020) and Realism, Science, and Pragmatism (Routledge, 2014).

• Part I: Epistemological Context1. Epistemology, Cognitive (In)Capacities and Thought Experiments 2. Kant, Wittgenstein, and Transcendental Chaos3. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Analytic PhilosophyPart II: Kant’s Critical Epistemology4. Constructing Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason5. Consciousness and its Transcendental Conditions: Kant’s Anti-Cartesian Revolt6. Kant’s Analytic of Principles7. Kant’s Dynamical Principles: The Analogies of Experience8. How Does Kant Prove that We Perceive, and Not Merely Imagine, Physical Objects?9. Kant, Causal Judgment, and Locating the Purloined LetterPart III: Further Ramifications10. Kant’s Cognitive Semantics, Newton’s Rule Four of Natural Philosophy, and Scientific Realism Today11. How Kant Justifies Freedom of Agency (without Transcendental Idealism)12. Kant’s Two Models of Human Action13. Mind, Language, and Behaviour: Kant’s Critical Cautions Contra Contemporary Internalism and Causal Naturalism