Work

The Bounds of Sense

Overview

The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is a 1966 book about Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by the Oxford philosopher Peter Strawson, in which the author tries to separate what remains valuable in Kant's work from Kant's transcendental idealism, which he rejects. The work is widely admired, and has received praise from philosophers as one of the first thorough works on the Critique of Pure Reason in the analytic tradition, although Strawson's treatment of transcendental idealism has been criticized.

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Philosophers who discussed The Bounds of Sense

• P. F. Strawson

Related ideas

• Roger Scruton
• Frederick C. Beiser
• Immanuel Kant
• Analytic philosophy
• Mind
• John McDowell
• P. F. Strawson
• E. J. Lowe (philosopher)
• University of Oxford
• Critique of Pure Reason
• Formal fallacy
• Reason
• Transcendental idealism
• Critical philosophy
• Routledge
• Henry E. Allison

Place in the tradition

Part of Transcendental idealism.

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