Part II, Paper 4 · European Philosophy from Kant

Kant: Space, time and the Copernican Revolution

Kant seems to exclude the possibility of objective space and time in the Transcendental Aesthetic. How is this related to his “Copernican Revolution”?

Essay of no more than 2,500 words.

Primary sources

• Kant, Immanuel: Critique of Pure Reason.Introduction and Transcendental Aesthetic.

Secondary sources

• Allison, Henry E. 2004. Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense, rev. ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Publisher
• Kanterian, Edward 2013. The Ideality of Space and Time: Trendelenburg versus Kant, Fischer and Bird. Kantian Review 18(2): 263–288. Publisher
• Langton, Rae 1998. Chapters 1 and 2 in Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves. Oxford: Clarendon Press. DOI

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