Third Meeting (Tuesday, Jan. 14) - Introduction Required Readings: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A1/B1–A16/B30; A319/B376–A320/B377 Kant, Logic, Section 1: “The Concept of Logic”, pp. 13-18 Suggested Readings: Strawson, Peter F., The Bounds of Sense, Part 1, pp. 15-44 Allison, Henry, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, 2nd Edition, Chapter 1, 1: “An Introduction to the Problem” Fourth Meeting (Thursday, Jan. 16) - Sensibility and Understanding Required Readings: Stephen Engstrom, “Understanding and Sensibility” Suggested Readings: Heidegger, Martin, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics pp. 3-26 Franks, Paul, All or Nothing, excerpt Schlick, Moritz, “The Nature of Knowledge” Lewis, C. I., Mind and the World Order, Chapters 1 and 2 Fifth Meeting (Tuesday, Jan. 21) - Sensation and Intuition Required Readings: Allison, Henry, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, 2nd Edition, Chapter 2, 4, “Discursivity and Judgment” Beck, Lewis White, “Did the Sage of Königsberg have no Dreams?” Suggested Readings: Allison, Henry, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, 1st Edition, Part 2, Section 4, “Discursivity and Judgment” & 2nd Edition, Part 2, Section 5, “The Sensible Conditions of Human Cognition” Thompson, Manley, “Singular Terms and Intuitions in Kant’s Epistemology” Parsons, Charles, “Kant’s Philosophy of Arithmetic” Bennett, Jonathan, Kant’s Dialectic, excerpt
Suggested Readings: Rosenkoetter , Timothy, "Truth Criteria and the Very Idea of a Transcendental Logic” Tenth Meeting (Thursday, Feb. 6) - The Leitfaden Required Readings: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A64/B89–A84/B116 Strawson, Peter F. The Bounds of Sense, Part 2, Chapter 2: “Objectivity and Unity”, Sections 1-2. Suggested Readings: Hoeppner, Till, "Kant's Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories. An of A 79" Blecher, Ian, “Kant on Formal Modality" Longuenesse, Beatrice, “Kant on A Priori Concepts" Rosenkoetter, Timothy, "Absolute Positing, the Frege Anticipation Thesis, and Kant’s Definitions of Judgment” Eleventh Meeting (Tuesday, Feb. 11) - Transcendental Argument(s) Required readings: Stroud, Barry, “Transcendental Arguments” Hamawaki, Arata, “Cartesian Skepticism, Kantian Skepticism, and Transcendental Arguments” Conant, James, “Varieties of Skepticism,” pp. 97-115 Suggested readings: Conant, James, “Varieties of Skepticism,” pp. 115-136 Moore, G. E., “Moore’s Paradox” Marcus, Eric, Rational Causation, pp. 18 - 36 Twelfth Meeting (Thursday, Feb. 13) - A-Edition of the Transcendental Deduction Required Readings: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A84/B116–A95/B129; A95–A130
Suggested Readings: McDowell, John, “Reply to Pippin”, “On Pippin’s Postscript” Pippin, Robert, “Leaving Nature Behind” & “On McDowell’s Response” Land, Thomas, “Kantian Conceptualism” Eighteenth Meeting (Thursday, March 6) - 1st and 2nd Analogies Required Readings: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A176/B218–A211/B256; B274–279. Strawson, The Bounds of Sense, Part 2, Ch. 3: “Permanence and Causality” Boyle, Matt, “Sortalism and Perceptual Content” Rödl, Sebastian, Categories of the Temporal, Ch. 6: “Generic Thoughts” Suggested Readings: Melnick, Arthur, “The Second Analogy” Allison, Henry, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, 2nd Edition, Part 3, Sec. 9: “The Analogies of Experience” Warren, Daniel, “Kant’s Dynamics” Nineteenth Meeting (Tuesday, March 11) Refutation of Idealism & The Ground of the Distinction of All Objects into Phenomena and Noumena Required Readings: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason B274–279; A235/B294–A260/B315. Allison, Henry, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, 2nd Edition, Part 1, Secs 2-3 Warren, Daniel, “Things in Themselves” Heidegger, Martin, Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant, pp. 67-70. Pippin, Robert, Kant’s Theory of Form, Chapter 7, “Appearances and Things in Themselves”, pp. 188-215. Suggested Readings: Carl, Wolfgang, “Kant’s Refutation of Problematic Idealism” Edmunts, Dina “The Refutation of Idealism” Strawson, Peter F., The Bounds of Sense, Part IV: “The Metaphysics of Idealism” Allison, Henry, “The Non-Spatiality of Things in Themselves for Kant”
Twentieth Meeting (Thursday, March 13) -- Optional Meeting Introduction to the Transcendental Dialectic, the Logic of Illusion, and the Transcendental Doctrine of Method Required Readings: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A293/B349–A338/B396; Strawson, Peter, The Bounds of Sense, Part 3, Chap. 1: “The Logic of Illusion” Allison, Henry, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, 2nd Edition, Part 4, Sec. 11: “Reason and Illusion” Suggested Readings: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A405/B432–A462/B490; Strawson, Peter, The Bounds of Sense, Part 3, Chapters 2, 3 & 4: “The Soul”, “The Cosmos”, and “God” Allison, Henry, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, 2nd Edition, Part 4, Sections 12-14 Moore, Adrian, “The Transcendental Doctrine of Method” Twenty-First Meeting (Tuesday, March 18) - Optional Meeting General Discussion and Retrospective