Kant's Transcendental Psychology

by Patricia Kitcher

Book Overview

For the last 100 years historians have denigrated the psychology of the Critique of Pure Reason. In opposition, Patricia Kitcher argues that we can only understand the deduction of the categories in terms of Kant's attempt to fathom the psychological prerequisites of thought, and that this investigation illuminates thinking itself. Kant tried to understand the "task environment" of knowledge and thought: Given the data we acquire and the scientific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195059670
• ISBN13: 9780195059670
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"