Day 2: Can Metaphysics be a Science?

•      Metaphysics

•      Review “metaphysics” from last time

•      Metaphysics as a science

•      Self-knowledge

•      Metaphysics, mathematics, & natural science 

•      Usefulness of metaphysics

•      Dogmatic procedure vs. dogmatism

•      Set up synthetic a priori

•      Read: Pr 13-27 (skip section 3), & CPR 31-62 (i.e. Bxxxiii to the end of the Introduction, B30/A16)

Review

•      Kant’s conception of metaphysics

•      PR 13

•      CPR Aviii

Metaphysics as Science?

•      PR 3-4

•      Metaphysics has not made progress, and science does: PR 3-4; CPR Aviii-xii

Self-knowledge

•      Self-knowledge, CPR Axi

•      What did the Oracle at Delphi tell Socrates?

Usefulness of Metaphysics

•      Metaphysics will not disappear, CPR-Bxxxi

•      Metaphysics is useful, CPR-Bxxiv

•      Much of CPR-Bxxiv-xxxi is about the usefulness of metaphysics

Metaphysics, Mathematics & Natural Science

•      What does Kant consider a science?

•      The Greeks paved the road to knowledge in mathematics in virtue of the search for proof and underlying principles, CPR-Bx-xii

•      Bacon (etc…), natural science, and knowledge

•      Denies knowledge to make room for faith, CPR-Bxxx

•      Two parts of metaphysics, CPR-Bxviii-xxi

Dogmatism vs. Dogmatic Procedure

•      Dogmatism

•      Different ways of being dogmatic

•      Are you Dogmatic if you use a dogmatic procedure?

Set Up Synthetic A Priori

•      Synthetic vs. analytic

•      A priori vs. a posteriori