Channel: Philosophy Overdose
Duration: 40:14
Description: Professor Dan Robinson gives the fourth lecture in this series on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Kant claims that, “our sense representation is not a representation of things in themselves, but of the way in which they appear to us. Hence it follows that the propositions of geometry… cannot be referred with the assurance to actual objects; but rather that they are necessarily valid of space… [and] space is nothing else than the form of all external appearances”. [Prolegomena 286-287] It remains a matter of controversy as to just what the central project of the Critique is, but surely one objective is to establish the character and range of objective knowledge in light of the limits of sense and reason. The lectures in this series are intended to clarify the major claims advanced by Kant in this connection, and to test the arguments he adduces in their support. This series of talks was given at Oxford.
Published: March 30, 2016 9:56 pm