Phil 106: Kant
Winter, 2020

Readings

Tuesday, January 7
: (no reading, first class).

Preface, Introduction, Tr. Aesthetic, and Intro to Tr. Logic
 
Thursday, January 9
: Preface, through “philosophy into philodoxy” (Bvii–xxxvii).
Tuesday, January 14
: Introduction (B1–30).
Thursday, January 16
: beginning of Transcendental Aesthetic, through end of §7 (B33–58).
Tuesday, January 21
: end of Transcendental Aesthetic, and Introduction to Transcendental Logic (B59–88).

Transcendental Analytic
 
Thursday, January 23
: Introduction to Transcendental Analytic, and Metaphysical Deduction (B89–116).
Tuesday, January 28
: beginning of Transcendental Deduction, through the end of §20 (B116–143).
Wednesday, January 29
: First take home midterm due.
Thursday, January 30
: end of Transcendental Deduction (B144–69).
Tuesday, February 4
: Schematism (and various introductory material) (B169–202).
Thursday, February 6
: Introduction to the Analogies, Second Analogy, Postulates of Empirical Thought, and Refutation of Idealism (B218–24, B232–47, B265–79).
Tuesday, February 11
: no class due to the strike.
Thursday, February 13
: Phenomena and Noumena (B295–315).
Tuesday, February 18
: Amphiboly (B316–49).

Transcendental Dialectic
 
Thursday, February 20
: Introduction to the Dialectic, and beginning of the Concepts of Pure Reason (B349–77).
Tuesday, February 25
: end of the Concepts of Pure Reason, and beginning of the Inferences of Pure Reason (B377–406).
Wednesday, February 26
: Second take home exam due.
Thursday, February 27
: Paralogisms (B406–32).
Tuesday, March 3
: Introduction to Antinomies, and Third Antinomy (B432–453, B472–79).
Thursday, March 5
: Concluding Note on the Solution of the Mathematical-Transcendental Ideas, and Solution to the Third Antinomy (B556–86).
Tuesday, March 10
: Ideal (B595–619).
Thursday, March 12
: Impossibility of the Cosmological and Ontological Proofs (B620–42).
Wednesday, March 18
: Take home final (or final paper) due.