Преподавател(и):

доц. Христо Гьошев  д-р

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

After completing successfully this course the students will:

1) know:

The main concepts, structure, and arguments of Kant's major and most influential work, The Critique of Pure reason, its impact on the immediate and later philosophical debates on knowledge and science, and its influence on key contemporary philosophical conceptions.

2) are capable of:

Recognizing the conceptual apparatus and the theoretical arguments of Kant's method as well as other analytical approaches relying on, or similar to, Kant's method of transcendental analysis and critical thinking.
Предварителни изисквания:
None

Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Английски

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

1. The modern epistemological project
2. Rationalism, empiricism, and scepticism
3. Kant's response to the modern problems of knowledge in his pre-critical philosophy
4. Kant's project of a transcendental critique
5. The transcendental aesthetics
6. The analytic of concepts
7. The analytic of principles
8. The problem of causality
9. The paralogisms of reason
10. Midterm exam
11. The antinomies of reason
12. Science and metaphysics after the critique
13. The place of the theoretical critique in Kant's broader philosophical project
14. The advance of Kant's theoretical critique in the consequent tradition of German Idealism
15. The legacy of the theoretical critique I: Phenomenology and Existentialism

Литература по темите:

Allison, H. (1983). Kant's Transcendental Idealism. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

Ameriks, K.(1982). Kant's Theory of Mind: An Analysis of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Bennett, J. (1966). Kant's Analytic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brittan, G. (1978). Kant's Theory of Science. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Guyer, P. ( 1987). Kant and the Claims of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kant, I. (1933). Critique of Pure Reason. Trans. Norman Kemp Smith, id ed. London: Macmillan.

Kant, I. (1950). Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Trans. Lewis White Beck. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

Kant, I. (1970). Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Trans. James Ellington. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

Kemp, J. (1968). The Philosophy of Kant. London: Oxford University Press.

Wood, A. (1984). Self and Nature in Kant's Philosophy. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.