The central project of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" was to answer two questions: what can we know and how can we know it? and what can't we know and why can't we know these things? These essays should help students read Kant's text with a greater understanding of its central themes.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Kant's A Priori Framework Chapter 3 Was Kant a Nativist? Chapter 4 Infinity and Kant's Conception of the 'Possibility of Experience,' Chapter 5 Kant's Cognitive Self Chapter 6 Kant's Transcendental Deduction as a Regressive Argument Chapter 7 Did the Sage of Konigsberg Have No Dreams? Chapter 8 Kant's Second Analogy Chapter 9 The Metaphysics of Transcendental Idealism [partial], fromThe Bounds of Sense Chapter 10 An Introduction to the Problem and Transcendental Realism and Transcendental Idealism, fromKant's Transcendental Idealism Chapter 11 Projecting the Order of Nature Chapter 12 Kant's Compatibilism Chapter 13 Kant's Critique of the Three Theistic Proofs [partial], fromKant's Rational Theology