Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume

by Paul Guyer

Book Overview

Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691151172
• ISBN13: 9780691151175
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"