Intensive study of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason; the problem of metaphysics and the self-criticism of reason; Kant’s Copernican turn; the constitutive role of concepts in knowledge; the possibility of synthetic a priori knowledge; the cognitive faculties of the human mind; Kant’s theory of representation; the questions of the ends, the limits and the vocation of human reason.

Our text will be the Critique of Pure Reason. The central theme of the course will be Kant’s criticism of metaphysics which finds its formulation in “transcendental idealism”.  This theme obviously extends to the question of the ends, the limits and the vocation of human reason.

The aim of the course is to provide a way of entrance to Kant’s system of Critiques, which is highly influential and significant for the history of philosophy.

At the end of this course the students will learn:

*Kant's critical philosophy

*Basic concepts of the Kantian theoretical philosophy