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I’m reading Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (henceforth “CPR”). There’s no point reading this book without taking notes and writing summaries, and owing to years of neglect I can’t write by hand any more, so I’m dumping it all here. I’ve got a philosophy blog at critique-of-pure-reason.com, but that’s meant to be for slightly more polished articles.

I was using Marcus Weigelt’s translation, which is based on that of Max Müller, but I’ve switched to Pluhar for various reasons. The result is that I’ve got a mixture of “cognition” and “knowledge”, and “representation” and “presentation”.

If you’re studying Kant in a formal setting, do not treat this jumble of notes as remotely authoritative. Go down to the library and consult one of the numerous commentaries and introductions.

Get in touch at alistair.robinson@gmail.com.

Structure of The Critique of Pure Reason

Prefaces		Introduction
TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF ELEMENTS						TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF METHOD
Transcendental Aesthetic		Transcendental Logic				Discipline of Pure Reason Canon of Pure Reason Architectonic of Pure Reason History of Pure Reason
Section I: Space	Section II: Time	Transcendental Analytic		Transcendental Dialectic
		Analytic of Concepts	Analytic of Principles	Concepts of Pure Reason	Dialectical inferences of pure reason
		The Metaphysical Deduction (The Clue/Guide for the Discovery of All Pure Concepts of Understanding) The Transcendental Deduction (The Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding)	Schematism System of Principles	Transcendental Ideas	Paralogisms of Pure Reason Antinomy of Pure Reason
		Appendix: Amphiboly of concepts of reflection		Appendix: Regulative Employment of the ideas of pure reason

Note: This table is copied from Nicholas Joll’s online Kantian Tables.