Phil 290O: Longuenesse on the Transcendental Analytic
Fall, 2019

Readings

Thursday, September 26
: no reading, first class.
Tuesday, October 1
: No class due to Rosh Hashanah
Wednesday, October 2
:
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).
Suggested further readings
: Aesthetic §1 (A19–22/B33–6); Inaugural Dissertation §§1–5, 8 (Ak. 2:387–95); Letter to Marcus Herz, 2/21/1772 (Ak. 10:129–35).
Thursday, October 3
: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch. 1 (pp. 17–34).
Tuesday, October 8
: (via Zoom)
Main reading
: A Deduction: the Threefold Synthesis (A95–110); B Deduction, §§15–18 (B129–40).
Suggested further reading
: Systematic Representation of the Principles (A158–62/B197–202; most importantly the note to B201).
Thursday, October 10
: No class due to PG&E shutdown
Tuesday, October 15
: No class due to Sukkot
Wednesday, October 16
: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch.’s 2–3 (pp. 35–72).
Thursday, October 17
:
Main reading
: B Deduction, §§19–21 (B141–6).
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).
Tuesday, October 22
: No class due to Simchat Torah
Wednesday, October 23
: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, Introduction to part II and ch. 4 (pp. 73-106).
Thursday, October 24
:
Main reading
: Amphiboly (A260–89/B316–46).
Suggested further reading
: 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).
Tuesday, October 29
: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch.’s 5 and 6 (pp. 107–66).
Thursday, October 31
:
Main reading
: B Deduction §§22–7 (B146–69) (but especially §§23–4).
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).
Tuesday, November 5
: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, Introduction to part III and ch. 8 (pp. 211-42).
Thursday, November 7
:
Main reading
: Schematism (A137–47/B176–87); Axioms of Intuition (A162–6/B202–7).
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).
Tuesday, November 12
: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch. 9 (pp. 243–91).
Thursday, November 14
:
Main reading
: Anticipations of Perception (A166–76/B207–18); Table of Nothing (A289–92/B346–9); Of the Transcendental Ideal (A571–83/B599–611).
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).
Tuesday, November 19
: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, ch. 10 (pp. 292–323).
Thursday, November 21
:
Main reading
: Introduction to the Analogies and First Analogy (A177–89/B218–32).
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).
Tuesday, November 26
: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, beginning of ch. 11 (pp. 324–45).
Thursday, November 28
: No class (Thanksgiving)
Tuesday, December 3
:
Main reading
: Second and Third Analogies (A189–218/B232–65).
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).
Thursday, December 5
: Kant and the Capacity to Judge, end of ch. 11 and Conclusion (pp. 345–99).
Wednesday, December 11
: Final paper due.