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- Kant’s Prolegomena
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Kant’s Prolegomena
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Humor, Common Sense and the Future of Metaphysics in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 2 Is Metaphysics Possible? The Argumentative Structure of the Prolegomena
- Chapter 3 From ‘Facts’ of Rational Cognition to Their Conditions: Metaphysics and the ‘Analytic’ Method
- Chapter 4 Transcendental Idealism in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 5 Judgments of Experience and the Grammar of Thought
- Chapter 6 The Beach of Skepticism: Kant and Hume on the Practice of Philosophy and the Proper Bounds of Skepticism
- Chapter 7 The Boundary of Pure Reason
- Chapter 8 Kant’s Argument Against Psychological Materialism in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 9 The Marriage of Metaphysics and Geometry in Kant’s Prolegomena
- Chapter 10 Kant’s ‘As If’ and Hume’s ‘Remote Analogy’: Deism and Theism in Prolegomena §§57 and 58
- Chapter 11 Cognition by Analogy and the Possibility of Metaphysics
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Chapter 8 - Kant’s Argument Against Psychological Materialism in the Prolegomena
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
- Kant’s Prolegomena
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Kant’s Prolegomena
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Humor, Common Sense and the Future of Metaphysics in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 2 Is Metaphysics Possible? The Argumentative Structure of the Prolegomena
- Chapter 3 From ‘Facts’ of Rational Cognition to Their Conditions: Metaphysics and the ‘Analytic’ Method
- Chapter 4 Transcendental Idealism in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 5 Judgments of Experience and the Grammar of Thought
- Chapter 6 The Beach of Skepticism: Kant and Hume on the Practice of Philosophy and the Proper Bounds of Skepticism
- Chapter 7 The Boundary of Pure Reason
- Chapter 8 Kant’s Argument Against Psychological Materialism in the Prolegomena
- Chapter 9 The Marriage of Metaphysics and Geometry in Kant’s Prolegomena
- Chapter 10 Kant’s ‘As If’ and Hume’s ‘Remote Analogy’: Deism and Theism in Prolegomena §§57 and 58
- Chapter 11 Cognition by Analogy and the Possibility of Metaphysics
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Summary
Kant’s objections to Cartesian accounts of the mind in the first Critique often lead readers to assume that he endorses some form of materialism, but the discussion of psychological ideas serves, Kant claims, to “destroy completely all materialistic explanations of the inner appearance of our soul” (4:334). As the chapter shows, the Prolegomena makes a distinctive appeal to the regulative use of these psychological ideas to argue against psychological materialism, or the view that our psychological states can be explained in terms of materialistic grounds, and further buttresses – in a different fashion – the position that Kant develops in the ‘Paralogisms’ section of the first Critique.
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- Kant's ProlegomenaA Critical Guide, pp. 154 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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