Kant on common sense and scepticism

Kantian Review

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-37

  Guyer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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References (33)

1. Karl Ameriks, Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
2. The argument of this book goes back to Ameriks's earlier work, such as 'Kant's transcendental deduction as a regressive argument', Kant-Studien, 69 (1978), 273-87.
3. Ameriks, Kant and the Fate of Autonomy, p. 43.
4. See Wilfrid Sellars, 'Philosophy and the scientific image of man', originally in Robert Colodny (ed.), Frontiers of Science and Philosophy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962),
5. John Rawls, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, ed. Barbara Herman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 149.
6. Thomas E. Hill, Jr., 'The rationality of moral conduct', originally published in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 66 (1985), 3-23,
7. reprinted in Hill, Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), pp. 97-122, at 98-9.
8. Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, 4: 405.
9. Translations from Kant's writings in moral philosophy will be from Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, translated by Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
10. Passages from the Critique of Pure Reason will be located, as is customary, by the pagination of the first (A) and second (B) editions. Translations from Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
11. Translations from Kant's lectures on logic are from Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Logic, ed. and trans. J. Michael Young (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
12. Translations from Kant's lectures on metaphysics are from Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Metaphysics, ed. and trans. Karl E. Ameriks and Steve Naragon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
13. Critique of Pure Reason, A 366-80.
14. I discussed these notes in 'Kant's intentions in the refutation of idealism', Philosophical Review, 92 (1983), 329-83
15. and Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), part IV, pp. 279-329.
16. They were also discussed by Eckart Förster in 'Kant's refutation of idealism', in A. J. Holland (ed.), Philosophy, its History and Historiography (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1985), pp. 295-311.
17. Critique of Pure Reason, A ix-xii.
18. Prolegomena, 4: 257, 4: 261.
19. Critique of Practical Reason, 5: 50-1.
20. This formulation of the objection to Kant's argument for transcendental idealism goes back at least as far as H. J. Paton, Kant's Metapbysic of Experience (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936), vol. I, p. 168.
21. Whether Kant had simply neglected to consider this possibility was the subject of a famous debate between Adolf Trendelenburg and Kuno Fischer in the mid-nineteenth century; see Hans Vaihinger, Commentar zu Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft, vol. II (Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1892), pp. 290-326,
22. and Norman Kemp Smith, A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd edition (London: Macmillan & Co., 1923), pp. 113-14.
23. Critique of Pure Reason, A 48/B 65.
24. I have pursued it in Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), ch. 16, esp. pp. 354-9 and 362-9.
25. For a very different approach to Kant's transcendental idealism, which argues that it is based in Kant's conception of a thing in itself as defined only by its intrinsic properties, not by its relational properties and for that reason not by the forms of its epistemic relations to us, see Rae Langton, Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
26. Critique of Pure Reason, A 185/B 228.
27. For a recent work emphasizing the importance of this principle to Kant's diagnosis of the natural illusions of metaphysics, see Michelle Grier, Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
28. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, §5;
29. in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, ed. Tom L. Beauchamp (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), pp. 34-45.
30. trans. in Paul Guyer (ed.), Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998), pp. 303-41,
31. and Karl Ameriks, 'Kant's deduction of freedom and morality', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 19 (1981), 53-79,
32. For some discussion of the latter, see 'From a practical point of view: Kant's conception of a postulate of pure practical reason', in my Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), ch. 10, pp. 333-71.
33. for some discussion, see my articles 'Reason and reflective judgment: Kant on the significance of systematicity', Nous, 24 (1990), 17-44 and 'Kant's conception of empirical law', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supplementary vol. 64 (1990), 221-42.