This paper gives an interpretation of Kant's argument for transcendental idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic. I argue against a common way of reading this argument, which sees Kant as arguing ...

I assume that at the centre of Kant's descriptive metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason is the anti-empiricist claim that there are a priori, but non-analytic, elements in experience. The further ...

The word "end" in this phrase has the same meaning as in the phrase "means to an end". The philosopher Immanuel Kant said that rational human beings should be treated as an end in themselves and not ...

Egginton, a professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of the new book The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Kant, Heisenberg, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality The philosophical world ...