Phil 106: Kant
Fall, 2022
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Readings

Thursday, September 22
: (no reading, first class).

Preface, Introduction, Tr. Aesthetic, and Intro to Tr. Logic
 
Tuesday, September 27
: No class due to the second day of Rosh Hashanah.
Wednesday, September 28
: (1:30–3:05pm) Preface, through “philosophy into philodoxy” (Bvii–xxxvii) (via Zoom only).
Thursday, September 29
: Introduction (B1–30).
Tuesday, October 4
: beginning of Transcendental Aesthetic, through end of §7 (B33–58) (via Zoom only).
Thursday, October 6
: end of Transcendental Aesthetic, and Introduction to Transcendental Logic (B59–88).

Transcendental Analytic
 
Tuesday, October 11
: No class due to the second day of Sukkot.
Thursday, October 13
: Introduction to Transcendental Analytic, and Metaphysical Deduction (B89–116).
Tuesday, October 18
: No class due to Simchat Torah.
Wednesday, October 19
: (1:30–3:05pm) beginning of Transcendental Deduction, through the end of §20 (B116–143) (via Zoom only).
Thursday, October 20
: end of Transcendental Deduction (B144–69).
Monday, October 24
: First take home midterm due.
Tuesday, October 25
: Schematism (and various introductory material) (B169–202).
Thursday, October 27
: Introduction to the Analogies, Second Analogy, Postulates of Empirical Thought, and Refutation of Idealism (B218–24, B232–47, B265–79).
Tuesday, November 1
: Phenomena and Noumena (B295–315).
Thursday, November 3
: Amphiboly (B316–49).

Transcendental Dialectic
 
Tuesday, November 8
: Introduction to the Dialectic, and beginning of the Concepts of Pure Reason (B349–77).
Thursday, November 10
: end of the Concepts of Pure Reason, and beginning of the Inferences of Pure Reason (B377–406).
Monday, November 14
: Second take home exam due.
Tuesday, November 15
: Paralogisms (B406–32).
Thursday, November 17
: Introduction to Antinomies, and Third Antinomy (B432–453, B472–79).
Tuesday, November 22
: Concluding Note on the Solution of the Mathematical-Transcendental Ideas, and Solution to the Third Antinomy (B556–86).
Thursday, November 24
: No class (Thanksgiving)
Tuesday, November 29
: Ideal (B595–619).
Thursday, December 1
: Impossibility of the Cosmological and Ontological Proofs (B620–42).
Wednesday, December 7
: Take home final (or final paper) due.

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