Kant: The Critique of Pure Reason

This course is an introduction to the mature philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Since the 18th century, few philosophers have more profoundly impacted the disciplines of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and moral philosophy than Kant. We will be reading Kant’s magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787). Topics discussed will include: the nature and possibility of metaphysics, the relation between mind and world, knowledge and justification, the nature of space and time, causation, freedom and causal determinism, and self-consciousness.