The Boundary of Pure Reason

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Boundary of Pure Reason

AU - Callanan, John J.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Cambridge University Press 2022.

PY - 2021/1/1

Y1 - 2021/1/1

N2 - The chapter takes up the question of how and why Kant marks the limits of metaphysics, particularly in light of the skeptical challenges to reason’s use raised by Hume and Bayle. Here Kant’s distinction between our cognitive faculties - the heterogeneity thesis - plays a crucial role, since it allows Kant to set the boundaries of metaphysics at the cognizable, which requires sensible content that dogmatic metaphysics is unable to provide. Kant’s account of limits and boundaries bears a suggestive similarity to the claims Wittgenstein makes in the Tractatus, and the essay lays out some of the fruitful ways in which the latter work can help shed light on Kant’s argument in the Prolegomena.

AB - The chapter takes up the question of how and why Kant marks the limits of metaphysics, particularly in light of the skeptical challenges to reason’s use raised by Hume and Bayle. Here Kant’s distinction between our cognitive faculties - the heterogeneity thesis - plays a crucial role, since it allows Kant to set the boundaries of metaphysics at the cognizable, which requires sensible content that dogmatic metaphysics is unable to provide. Kant’s account of limits and boundaries bears a suggestive similarity to the claims Wittgenstein makes in the Tractatus, and the essay lays out some of the fruitful ways in which the latter work can help shed light on Kant’s argument in the Prolegomena.

KW - Bounds

KW - cognitive faculties

KW - Hume

KW - limits

KW - metaphysics

KW - Wittgenstein

KW - Kant

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85185340279&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/9781108677776.008

DO - 10.1017/9781108677776.008

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85185340279

SN - 9781108496476

SP - 133

EP - 153

BT - Kant’s Prolegomena

PB - Cambridge University Press

ER -