1st Edition

A Guide to Kant’s Psychologism via Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Wittgenstein

By Wayne Waxman Copyright 2019
350 Pages
by Routledge

350 Pages
by Routledge

350 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents an interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism. It groups Kant’s philosophy together with those of the British empiricists—Locke, Berkeley, and Hume—in a single line of psychologistic succession and offers a clear explanation of how Kant’s psychologism differs from psychology and idealism. The book reconciles Kant’s philosophy with subsequent... Read more

Introduction





Chapter 1: Breaking the Mold





Part I: The Path to Kant: Psychologism and Conventionalism





Chapter 2: Locke’s Oyster





Chapter 3: Berekely’s Vision





Chapter 4: Hume’s Cement





Chapter 5: From Hume to Kant via Wittgenstein





Part II: Nature in Mind: Through Kant’s I’s





Chapter 6: The Kantian Cogito





Chapter 7: The Logical I





Chapter 8: The Aesthetic I





Chapter 9: The Objective I





Chapter 10: The I of Nature





Conclusion

Biography

Wayne Waxman is the author of Kant’s Anatomy of the Intelligent Mind, Kant and the Empiricists, Hume’s Theory of Consciousness, and Kant’s Model of the Mind. He is retired and lives in New Zealand.