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Thursday, September 26
- : no reading, first class.
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Wednesday, October 2
- :
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Main reading
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge,
Introduction (pp. 4–14); Metaphysical Deduction (A66–83/B90–113),
Transcendental Deduction, §§13–14 (A84–94/B116–129).
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Suggested further readings
- : Aesthetic §1 (A19–22/B33–6); Inaugural
Dissertation §§1–5, 8 (Ak. 2:387–95[1]“Ak.” refers to the
Berlin/Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of Kant’s work.
I provide a link to the online version if available.); Letter to Marcus
Herz, 2/21/1772 (Ak. 10:129–35).
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Thursday, October 3
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch. 1 (pp. 17–34).
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Tuesday, October 8
- : (via Zoom)
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Main reading
- : A Deduction: the Threefold Synthesis (A95–110); B
Deduction, §§15–18 (B129–40).
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Suggested further reading
- : Systematic Representation of the
Principles (A158–62/B197–202; most importantly the note to B201).
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Thursday, October 10
- : No class due to PG&E shutdown
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Tuesday, October 15
- : No class due to Sukkot
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Wednesday, October 16
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch.’s 2–3 (pp. 35–72).
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Thursday, October 17
- :
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Main reading
- : B Deduction, §§19–21 (B141–6).
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Suggested futher reading
- : Logic, §§7, 17, 23, 25, 36, and 60 (Ak. 9:95,
101, 104, 105, 111, 122–3); Reflexionen 3042, 3045, 3051 (Ak. 16:629,
630–31, 633); Letter to Reinhold, 5/12/1789 (Ak. 11:33–40).
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Wednesday, October 23
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge, Introduction to part II
and ch. 4 (pp. 73-106).
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Thursday, October 24
- :
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Main reading
- : Amphiboly (A260–89/B316–46).
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Suggested further reading
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: Phenomena and Noumena (beginning) (A235/B294–A246/B303);
Logic, Introduction part V, §§4–6 (Ak. 9:33–8, 93–5); Reflexionen
2878, 2880, 2883 (Ak. 16:556–8).
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Tuesday, October 29
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch.’s 5 and 6 (pp. 107–66).
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Thursday, October 31
- :
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Main reading
- : B Deduction §§22–7 (B146–69) (but especially §§23–4).
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Suggested further reading
- : Aesthetic §§2, 4, and 7 (A22–5/B37–40,
A30–32/B46–8, A36–41/B53–8); Introduction to the System
of Principles (A148–58/B187–97); “Stufenleiter” (A320/B376–7);
Inaugural Dissertation, §§13–14 (Ak. 2:398–402); Anthropology, §28
(Ak. 7:167–9).
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Tuesday, November 5
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge, Introduction to part III
and ch. 8 (pp. 211-42).
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Thursday, November 7
- :
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Main reading
- : Schematism (A137–47/B176–87); Axioms of Intuition
(A162–6/B202–7).
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Suggested further reading
- : Introduction to the Analytic of Principles
(A130–36/B169–75); General Remark to the System of Principles
(B288–94); Discipline of Pure Reason in its Dogmatic Employment
(A712–738/B740–766); Prolegomena, §§20 and 21 (Ak. 4:300–304).
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Tuesday, November 12
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch. 9 (pp. 243–91).
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Thursday, November 14
- :
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Main reading
- : Anticipations of Perception (A166–76/B207–18); Table
of Nothing (A289–92/B346–9); Of the Transcendental Ideal
(A571–83/B599–611).
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Suggested further reading
- : Postulates (A218–35/B265–74, B279–87);
Prolegomena, §24 (Ak. 4:306–7); Reflexionen
3063, 5270 (Ak. 16:636–7, 18:138–9); Negative Magnitudes, Section 1
(Ak. 2:171–8).
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Tuesday, November 19
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch. 10 (pp. 292–323).
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Thursday, November 21
- :
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Main reading
- : Introduction to the Analogies and First Analogy
(A177–89/B218–32).
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Suggested further reading
- : Second Antinomy (A435–43/B463–71)
and its Solution (A523–7/B551–5); Regulative Employment, full
paragraph on A664/B692 (from “In the Transcedental Analytic”
to “such regulative employment?”); Prolegomena §28 (Ak. 4:311);
Reflexionen 4676, 5297, 5861 (Ak. 17:653–7, 18:146, 371); MAdN,
Dynamics, Propositions 4–5 and Mechanics, Explications 1 and 2 and
Proposition 1 (Ak. 4:503–10, 536–41).
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Tuesday, November 26
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge, beginning of ch. 11
(pp. 324–45).
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Thursday, November 28
- : No class (Thanksgiving)
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Tuesday, December 3
- :
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Main reading
- : Second and Third Analogies (A189–218/B232–65).
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Suggested further reading
- : Refutation
of Idealism (B274–9); Discipline (on Hume) (A764–8/B792–6) (from
“Hume is perhaps the most ingenious” to “a limited but undisputed
patrimony.”); Novo Dilucidatio, Prop.’s 4 and 5 (Ak. 1:391–4);
Reflexionen 3744, 3753, 3756, 3839, 5167 (Ak. 17:280, 282–3, 284–5,
308, 18:107–8); Prolegomena, Preface (on Hume) (from “Since the
Essays” to “hope of so doing.”) and end of §57 (Ak. 4:257–61, 356–7);
KU, Introduction, part V (Ak. 5:181–6); Logic §29 (Ak. 9:107–8);
Metaphysics Volckman, Ak. 28:395–9 and 403–404 (original available
here).
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Thursday, December 5
- : Kant and the Capacity to Judge, end of ch. 11 and
Conclusion (pp. 345–99).
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Wednesday, December 11
- : Final paper due.