Day 12: Preparing for the Transcendental Deduction

•      Return Midterm and Discuss

•      Review

•      Judgments and Categories

•      The Copernican Revolution

•      Read: CPR 151-160, and Scruton’s chp. 3

Judgments and Categories

•      A concept is a function of the understanding; it unifies or constructs a synthesis: “the act of putting different representations together, and of grasping what is manifold in them in one [act of] knowledge.” (CPR-B103)

Judgments and Categories

•      Table of Judgments (CPR-B95) and the

•      Table of Categories (CPR-B106)

•      The kinds of Judgments are being used as a clue for the discovery of the kinds of categories

The Copernican Revolution

•      Kant thinks we need to justify the application of the categories; we need to demonstrate that they are conditions for the possibility of thought: CPR-B121 & B122-123.

•      In short, he wants to do for the categories (in the Transcendental Logic) something like what he tried to do for the forms of space and time (in the Transcendental Aesthetic); this is the next step in his Copernican Revolution