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Why Did Kant Conceive of the Critique of Pure Reason as a Critique? Comments on Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2024

Karin de Boer
Karin de Boer*
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Email: karin.deboer@kuleuven.be
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Abstract

My response to Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (2023) focuses on Kant’s conception of the role of critique in the Critique of Pure Reason. On my account, Gava’s emphasis on the constructive elements of the Critique downplays the critique of former metaphysics elaborated in all three parts of the Transcendental Doctrine of Elements. After some comments on Kant’s conception of the Critique as a doctrine of method, I support this view by discussing the relation between transcendental philosophy and transcendental critique, Kant’s analysis of the faculties, and his transcendental deduction of space.

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KantCritique of Pure Reasoncritiquefaculty analysistranscendental deduction of space
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Author Meets Critic
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Kantian Review , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 2024 , pp. 103 - 113
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Kantian Review

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