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A lecture series examining Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work 'The Critique of Pure Reason'. The lectures aim to outline and discuss some of the key philosophical issues raised in the book and to offer students and individuals thought provoking Kantian ideas surrounding metaphysics. Each lecture looks at particular questions raised in the work such as how do we know what we know and how do we find out about the world, dissects these questions with reference to Kant's work and discusses the broader philosophical implications. Anyone with an interest in Kant and philosophy will find these lectures thought provoking but accessible.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason themes • limits of reason and experience • a priori knowledge, synthetic judgments • space and time • categories, judgment, transcendental deduction • self-consciousness, apperception • idealism and external world • antinomies, paralogismsThis podcast is a lecture series devoted to Immanuel Kant’s *Critique of Pure Reason* and the philosophical project it advances. Across the lectures, it situates Kant against the backdrop of early modern debates about how knowledge is possible, especially the contrast between the successes of 17th‑century physics and the contested status of metaphysics as a “science.” A recurring focus is Kant’s attempt to delineate the proper roles and limits of sensibility and understanding, and to explain how their cooperation can yield objective, shareable knowledge rather than mere subjective impressions.
Central themes include Kant’s “Copernican” approach, in which the knowing subject contributes conditions that make experience possible. The series explores space and time as forms of intuition, the idea that certain structural features of experience are a priori, and how this underwrites the possibility of synthetic a priori judgments (often illustrated through geometry). It also examines the transition from mere forms of thought to objective concepts through the categories and the transcendental deduction, addressing challenges faced by empiricist accounts of objectivity.
Another sustained thread concerns self-consciousness and its role in cognition, including the synthetic unity of apperception and the relation between inner sense and outer experience. The lectures also treat Kant’s engagement with varieties of idealism and his strategy for refuting them by linking self-awareness to awareness of a stable external world. The series culminates in Kant’s account of reason’s tendency to overreach—producing paralogisms, antinomies, and “transcendental ideas”—and the need to discipline reason to avoid illegitimate metaphysical claims beyond possible experience.
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The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason. 2011-Mar-16 37 minutes |
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The "Self" and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception 2011-Mar-16 41 minutes |
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Concepts, judgement and the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories 2011-Mar-16 40 minutes |
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Idealisms and their refutations 2011-Mar-16 42 minutes |
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How are a priori synthetic judgements possible? 2011-Mar-16 40 minutes |
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Space, time and the "Analogies of Experiences" 2011-Mar-16 48 minutes |
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The broader philosophical context 2011-Mar-16 45 minutes |
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Just what is Kant's "project"? 2011-Mar-16 46 minutes |