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Kant on the Categories & Causation

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Kant’s mature philosophical system is notable for the strictures it sets on the kind of knowledge human beings (or finite rational beings more generally) can achieve through reason alone. Importantly, Kant thinks that pure reason can achieve relatively little on its own. All of our ampliative knowledge that is also necessary and universal consists in what Kant calls ‘synthetic a priori’ judgments or propositions. The central question he then pursues concerns how knowledge of such synthetic a priori propositions is possible. We previously discussed Kant’s arguments concerning the role (the representations of) space and time play in grounding necessary and universal mathematical knowledge. Thus, mathematical knowledge is synthetic because it goes beyond mere conceptual analysis to deal with the structure of (our representation of) space itself. It is a priori because the structure of (our representation of) space is a priori accessible to us, being merely the form of our intuition and no

Kant on the Categories & Causation Notebook Kant on the Categories & Causation The Problem with A Priori Concepts Kant's mature philosophical system is notable for the strictures it sets on the kind of knowledge human beings (or finite rational beings more generally) can achieve through reason alone. Importantly, Kant thinks that pure reason can achieve relatively little on its own. All of our ampliative knowledge that is also necessary and universal consists in what Kant calls 'synthetic a priori' judgments or propositions. The central question he then pursues concerns how knowledge of such s

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