Wayne Waxman Book order

The interpretation offered in this book views Kant's Critique of Pure Reason through the lens of a priori psychologism, bridging Kant's ideas with advancements in science and mathematics. It explores the connections between Kant’s philosophy and modern concepts such as post-Fregean mathematical logic, non-Euclidean geometry, and the principles of relativity and quantum theory, highlighting the relevance of Kant's work in contemporary discussions.

According to current philosophical lore, Kant rejected the notion that philosophy can progress by psychological means and endeavored to restrict it accordingly. This book reverses the frame from Kant the anti-psychological critic of psychological philosophy to Kant the preeminent psychological critic of non-psychological philosophy.

Wayne Waxman here presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophers of what are known as the British Empiricists--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume--to the philosophy of German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Much has been written about all these thinkers, who are among the most influential figures in the Western tradition. Waxman argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Kant is actually the culmination of the British empiricist program and that he shares their methodological assumptions and basic convictions about human thought and knowledge.

This work offers an in-depth examination and critical reassessment of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, exploring its philosophical implications and contributions to the understanding of human psychology and behavior. The analysis delves into Hume's arguments, providing fresh insights into his theories on knowledge, emotion, and morality, and highlights the relevance of his ideas in contemporary philosophical discourse.

This book argues that Kant's transcendental idealism has been it denies not simply the super- sensory reality of space, time, and appearances, but their reality outside imagination as well. After adducing extensive and explicit textual evidence in its favor, Waxman shows thisinterpretation to be essential to the Transcendental Deduction, the affirmation of things in themselves, and the attempt to surmount Hume's scepticism. He further argues that Kant's much-neglected claim that, besides himself, "no psychologist has so much as even thought that the imagination might bea necessary constituent of perception," should be construed so that even our consciousness of sensation itself (visual, tactile, etc.) is impossible without imagination. A compelling and original contribution to Kantian scholarship, Kant's Model of the Mind will also bear close examination bystudents and scholars of Hume, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science.