Part II, Paper 4 · European Philosophy from Kant

Kant: The apriority of space

Why, according to Kant, is space a priori?

Essay of no more than 2,500 words.

Primary sources

• Kant, Immanuel: Critique of Pure Reason.Prologue AVII–AXXII; B-Introduction (B6–B29); Transcendental Aesthetic (A19/B33–A49/B73).

Secondary sources

• Allison, Henry E. 2004. The Sensible Conditions of Human Cognition, pp. 97–132 in Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Publisher
• Hatfield, Gary 2006. Kant on the perception of space (and time), pp. 61–93 in The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy, ed. Paul Guyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI
• Shabel, Lisa 2003. Reflections on Kant’s concept (and intuition) of space. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34(1): 45–57. DOI
• Warren, Daniel 1998. Kant and the Apriority of Space. The Philosophical Review 107(2): 179–224. Publisher

General introductions

• Gardner, Sebastian 1999. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. London: Routledge.
• Guyer, Paul (ed.) 1992. The Cambridge Companion to Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI
• Guyer, Paul (ed.) 2010. The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI