Kants Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason Book

Acknowledgements     vi
Introduction     1
Transcendental Arguments: Superfluity and Scepticism     7
Stroud's Objection     8
The Adversary of the Refutation     10
Kant's View of Scepticism     23
Kant's Proto-Verificationism     26
Transcendental Arguments, Transcendental Idealism and the Framework Principle     30
The Transcendental Method     34
Mathematical and Philosophical Proofs     36
The Possibility of Experience, Possible Intuitions and the Conditions of Instantiation     40
The Second Analogy of Experience in Outline     57
Negative Results     60
The Transcendental Refutation of Empirical Idealism     62
The Refutation a Mere Word Play     64
Ontological and Phenomenological Distinctness     68
The Argument in the Refutation of Idealism     80
Structure of the Proof     80
Instantiation of the Transcendental Subject     89
The Argument from Sensory Content     95
What is an Object?     100
The A Priori in Perception     100
Circularity and Immediacy     113
The Transcendental as a Level of Discourse     118
TheIdea of a Framework and the Transcendental Nature of the Refutation     118
Concluding Remarks     128
Notes     132
References     148
Index     152