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W1 1 Introduction to the Course Lecture    

Kant. Critique. A1/B1-A16/B30.
2 Introduction to the Critique Lecture Gardner. Guidebook. Chapter 3.  
van Cleve. Problems. Chapter 2.

W2 Kant. Critique. A19/B34-B73.
3 Space (Transcendental Aesthetic) Lecture Gardner. Guidebook. Chapter 4.  
van Cleve. Problems. Chapter 3

Space (Transcendental Aesthetic) Kant.  Critique. A19/B34-B73.

4 Lecture  
(cont.) van Cleve. Problems. Chapter 4.

W3 The Transcendental Deduction of Kant. Critique. A96-A130/B130-B179.

5 Lecture  
the Categories Gardner. Guidebook. pp. 135-165.

Short
Space, and the Transcendental
6 Discussion   exercise
Deductions
due

W4 7 Substance and the First Analogy Lecture Kant. Critique. A182/B224-A189/B232.  

Substance and the First Analogy

8 Discussion    
(cont.)

W5 Kant. Critique. B233-A211/B256.
9 Causality and the Second Analogy Lecture  
Strawson. The Bounds of Sense (excerpt).

Causality (cont.) and Community

10 Lecture Kant. Critique. A211/B257-A218-B265.  
(The Third Analogy)

W6 Causality and Community, the

11 Discussion    
Second and Third Analogies

12 Phenomena and Noumena Lecture Kant. Critique. A236/B295-A260/B315.  

W7 13 Phenomena and Noumena (cont.) Discussion    

Kant. Critique. A366/B274-A380/B279. First essay

14 Kant's "Refutations" of Idealism Lecture
Gardner. Guidebook. Chapter 8. due

W8 Idealism, Realism, and Ignorance

15 Discussion    
of Things in Themselves

Kant.  Critique. The Amphiboly of Concepts of

The "Problem of Affection," and
16
Three Kantian Theses
Reflection, A265/B321-A268/B324 and
A277/B233-A278-B334.
Lecture  
Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapters 1 and 2.
Allison, Henry. Transcendental Idealism. Chapter
1.

W9 The "Problem of Affection," and

17 Discussion    
Three Kantian Theses (cont.)

18 The Development of Kantian Lecture Kant. Critique.  The Amphiboly of Concepts of  

Humility Reflection, A265/B321-A268/B324 and
A277/B233-A278-B334. First Analogy,
A182/B224-A189/B232.
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. The
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Monadology  (excerpts).
Kant. New Exposition on the First Principles of
Metaphysical Knowledge (excerpt).
Langton. Kantian Humility . Chapters 3-6.

W10 The Development of Kantian

19 Discussion    
Humility (cont.)

20 Substance Revisited Lecture Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapter 2.  

W11 21 Substance Revisited (cont.) Discussion    

Kant. Prolegomena (excerpt).
Kant. Critique. Postulates of Empirical Thought,
A225/B273-A266-B218. Axioms of Intuition and
Anticipations of Perception, A162/B202-
A176/B218.
Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human
Understanding (1689) (excerpt). Edited by P.
Nidditch. New York, NY: Oxford University
Primary and Secondary Qualities Press, 1975.
22 Lecture  
in Kant Bennett, Jonathan.  Locke, Berkeley, Hume:
Central Themes  (excerpt). New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 1971.
Evans, Gareth. "Things Without the Mind."
In Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P.
F. Strawson. Edited by Zak van Straaten. New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 76-
116.
Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapters 7 and 8.

W12 Primary and Secondary Qualities Second

23 Discussion  
in Kant (cont.) essay due

Kant. The Kant-Eberhard Controversy (excerpt).

Translated with a commentary by Henry E.
Primary Qualities and Scientific
24 Discussion Allison. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins  
Realism
University Press, 1973.
Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapters 8 and 9.

W13 Kant. Critique . Transcendental Aesthetic,

A19/B34-B73. Refutation of Idealism, A366-
25 Idealism and Realism Revisited Lecture  
A380.
Langton. Kantian Humility. Chapter 10.

Idealism and Realism Revisited

26 Discussion    
(cont.)

MAIN READINGS

Text
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787). Edited by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood. New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 1999.

You may alternatively use the older edition, translated and edited by Norman Kemp Smith.

Commentaries
Allison, Henry. Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense. Revised ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 2004.
Bennett, Jonathan. Kant's Analytic. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1966. ISBN: 0521093899.
Gardner, Sebastian. Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999. ISBN: 041511909X.
Guyer, Paul. Kant and the Claims of Knowledge. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0521337720.
Langton, Rae. Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN:
0199243174.
Strawson, P. F. The Bounds of Sense: an Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. New York, NY: Methuen, 1975. ISBN:
0416291007.
van Cleve, James. Problems from Kant. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0195083229.

Readings by Session
The A/B pagination featured below for Kant's Critique of Pure Reason signifies the page numbers in the first (A) and second (B)
editions of the text.

ADDITIONAL READINGS

Beck, Lewis White. Essays on Kant and Hume. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978.
Bencivenga, Ermanno. Kant's Copernican Revolution. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Bennett, Jonathan. Kant's Dialectic. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
———. Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1971. ISBN: 0198243529.
Berkson, W. Fields of Force. New York, NY: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.
Blackburn, Simon. "Filling In Space." Analysis 50 (1990): 62-5. Reprinted in Essays in Quasi-realism. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 1993.
Boscovich, R. J. A Theory of Natural Philosophy (1763). Translated by J. M. Child. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966. ISBN:
0262520036.
Brittan, Gordon. Kant's Theory of Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Buroker, Jill Vance. Space and Incongruence. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1981.
Costabel, Pierre. "Newton's and Leibniz' Dynamics." In The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton. Edited by R. Palter.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970.
Dryer, D. P. Kant's Solution for Verification in Metaphysics. London, UK: George Allen and Unwin, 1966.
Evans, Gareth. "Things Without the Mind." In Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P. F. Strawson. Edited by Zak van
Straaten. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 76-116.
Faraday, Michael. "A Speculation touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter." In Experimental Researches in
Electricity. Vol. II. London, UK: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1844.
Foster, John. The Case for Idealism. New York, NY: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.
Friedman, Michael. Kant and the Exact Sciences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Furth, Montgomery. "Monadology." In Leibniz: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Harry Frankfurt. New York, NY:
Doubleday, 1972, pp. 99-136.
Harré, R., and E. H. Madden. Causal Powers. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1975.
Heimann, P. M., and J. E. McGuire. "Newtonian Forces and Lockean Powers: Concepts of Matter in Eighteenth Century
Thought." Chapter 3 in Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Philadelphia, PA: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1971, pp. 233-306.
Heimsoeth, Heinz. "Metaphysical Motives in the Development of Critical Idealism." In Kant: Disputed Questions. Edited by
Moltke Gram. Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1967, pp. 158-99.
Hesse, Mary. Forces and Fields. London, UK: Thomas Nelson, 1961.
Humberstone, I. L. "Intrinsic/Extrinsic." Synthese 108 (1996): 205-267. (Accepted in 1992.)
Jackson, Frank, Robert Pargetter, and Elizabeth Prior. "Three Theses about Dispositions." American Philosophical Quarterly 19
(1982): 251-7.
Jammer, Max. Concepts of Force. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.
Kant, Immanuel. Collected Works. Gesammelte Schriften. Edited by Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Berlin and Leipzig, Germany: de Gruyter, 1922. (Hereafter Ak.)
———. Principiorum primorum cognitionis metaphysicae nova dilucidatio (1755). Ak. Vol. 1. English Translation: "A New
Exposition of the First Principles of Metaphysical Knowledge." In Kant's Latin Writings: Translations,
Commentaries and Notes. Edited by L. W. Beck et al. New York, NY: P. Lang, 1986.
———. Monadologia physica (1756). Ak. Vol. 1. English Translation: "Physical Monadology." In Kant's Latin Writings:
Translations, Commentaries and Notes. Edited by L. W. Beck et al. New York, NY: P. Lang, 1986.
———. Von dem ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden in Raume (1768). Ak. Vol. 2. English Translation: Kant's
Inaugural Dissertation and Early Writings on Space. Edited by J. Handyside. Chicago, IL: Open Court,
1928.
———. De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis (1770). Ak. Vol. 2. English Translation: "On the Form and
Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World (The Inaugural Dissertation)." In Kant: Selected Pre-
Critical Writings. Edited by G.B. Kerferd and D.E. Walford. Manchester, UK: Manchester University
Press, 1968.
———. Reflexionen zur Metaphysik. Ak. Vols. 17 and 18.
———. Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik (1783). Ak. Vol. 4. English Translation: Prolegomena to any Future
Metaphysics. Translated and edited by Gary Hatfield. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
———. Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft (1786). Ak. Vol. 4. English Translation: Metaphysical
Foundations of Natural Science. Translated by J. Ellington. Indianapolis, IN: Library of Liberal Arts, 1970.
———. "Über eine Entdeckung nach der alle neue Kritik der reinen Vernunft durch eine ältere entbehrlich gemacht werden soll"
(1790). Ak. Vol. 4. English Translation: "On a Discovery According to which Any New Critique of Pure
Reason Has Been Made Superfluous by an Earlier One." In The Kant-Eberhard Controversy. Translated
with a commentary by Henry Allison. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. ISBN:
0801814561.
Kemp Smith, Norman. Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1923.
Langsam, Harold. "Kant, Hume, and Our Ordinary Concept of Causation." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54
(1994): 625-647.
Langton, Rae, and David Lewis. "Defining 'Intrinsic'." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1998): 333-45. Reprinted in
Lewis. Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Laywine, Alison. Kant's Early Metaphysics and the Origins of the Critical Philosophy. Vol. 3. North American Kant Society
Studies in Philosophy. Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview. 1993.
Leibniz, G. W. Die philosophischen Schriften. 7 vols. Edited by C. I. Gerhardt. Berlin, Germany: 1875-90. Reprinted:
Hildesheim, Germany: G. Olms, 1960-1.
———. Philosophical Papers and Letters. Translated and edited by L. Loemker. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1969.
———. New Essays on Human Understanding (1765). Translated and edited by P. Remnant and J. Bennett. New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 1981.
———. Philosophical Essays. Translated and edited by R. Ariew and D. Garber. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1989.
Lewis, David. "Ramseyan Humility." Forthcoming in Naturalism and Conceptual Analysis. Edited by David Braddon-Mitchell
and Robert Nola. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). Edited by P. Nidditch. New York, NY: Oxford University Press,
1975. ISBN: 1406790273.
Mackie, J. L. Problems from Locke. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Mates, Benson. The Philosophy of Leibniz: Metaphysics and Language. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Melnick, Arthur. Space, Time, and Thought in Kant. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, 1989.
Mondadori, Fabrizio. "Solipsistic Perception in a World of Monads." In Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays. Edited by
Michael Hooker. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1982, pp. 21-44. ISBN: 0816610207.
Paton, H. J. Kant's Metaphysic of Experience. London, UK: Allen and Unwin, 1936.
Polonoff, Irving. Force, Cosmos, Monads and Other Themes of Kant's Early Thought. Bonn, Germany: Kant-Studien
Ergänzungsheft Nr. 107, 1973.
Smith, A. D. "Of Primary and Secondary Qualities." The Philosophical Review 99 (1990): 221-54.
Shoemaker, Sydney. "Causality and Properties." In Time and Cause. Edited by Peter van Inwagen. Dordrecht, Netherlands:
Reidel, 1980.
Strawson, P. F. Individuals. London, UK: Methuen, 1959.
———. "Reply to Evans." In Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P. F. Strawson. Edited by Zak van Straaten. New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 273-82. ISBN: 019824603X.
Van Cleve, James. "Putnam, Kant, and Secondary Qualities." Philosophical Papers 24 (1995): 83-109.
Watkins, Eric. Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Williams, L. P. Michael Faraday: A Biography. New York, NY: Chapman and Hall, 1965.
———. The Origins of Field Theory. New York, NY: Random House, 1966.
Wilson, Margaret. "The 'Phenomenalisms' of Berkeley and Kant." In Self and Nature in Kant's Philosophy. Edited by Allen
Wood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984, pp. 157-73. ISBN: 0801416108.