{"product_id":"possible-experience-understanding-kants-critique-of-pure-reason-paperback","title":"Possible Experience: Understanding Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur Collins's succinct, revisionist exposition of Kant's \u003ci\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e brings a new clarity to this notoriously difficult text. Until recently most readers, ascribing broadly Cartesian assumptions to Kant, have concluded that the \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e advances an idealist philosophy, because Kant calls it \"transcendental idealism\" and because the work abounds in apparent confirmations of that interpretation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollins maintains not only that this reading of Kant is false but also that it conceals Kant's real achievements. To counter it, he addresses the themes and passages in the \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e that seem to require an idealist thesis and shows how they may be better understood without ascribing any idealist philosophy to Kant. His account coheres with Kant's explicit \"refutations\" of idealism, it fits Kant's rejection of the imputation of idealism to him by early critics and readers, and it validates Kant's contention that the second edition of the \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e changes the expression but not the doctrine of the first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis stimulating and accessible treatment of a central philosophical work advances a nuanced and original understanding, highly relevant to current debates both in Kant interpretation and in philosophy more generally.--Howard Wettstein, author of \u003ci\u003eHas Semantics Rested on a Mistake? and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur Collins\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Mental Things\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) and \u003ci\u003eThought and Nature: Studies in Rationalist Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (1985).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 219\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 5.93 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47578397966557,"sku":"9780520214996","price":62.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/iS11v3lirl9780520214996.webp?v=1773503259","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/possible-experience-understanding-kants-critique-of-pure-reason-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}