Timeline of Readings for Tutorial on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

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Intro meeting: Introduction to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason

Week 1: Prefaces and Introduction (pp. 91-152) (All page numbers are to the Cambridge edition of the Critique of Pure Reason

Week 2: Transcendental Aesthetic (pp. 172-92)

Week 3: Metaphysical Deduction (pp. 193-218)

Week 4: Transcendental Deduction (A) (pp. 219-44)

Week 5: Transcendental Deduction (B) (pp. 245-66)

Week 6: Schematism, Axioms of Intuition, Anticipations of Perception (pp. 267-95)

Week 7: Analogies of Experience (pp. 295-321)

Spring Break

Week 8: Refutation of Idealism, Phenomena and Noumena (pp. 3212-337, 354-384)

Week 9: Paralogisms (pp. 384-415, 445-458)

Week 10: Antinomies (pp. 459-550)

Week 11: Ideal of Pure Reason/ Critique of Theology (pp. 551-589; optional: 590-623)

Week 12: Regulative Ideals (pp. 590-623; or 627-704, 'Discipline' and 'Canon')

Week 13: Wrap-up meeting over dinner, 6 PM, my house.