Kant’s Transcendental Deduction

This argument of the transcendental deduction of the categories in the "Critique of Pure Reason" is the deepest and most far-reaching in philosophy. In his new book, Robert Howell interprets main themes of the deduction using ideas from contemporary philosophy and intensional logic, thereby providing a keener grasp of Kant's many subtleties than has hitherto been available. New accounts of apperception, the concept of an object, the logical functions of thought, the role of the Metaphysical Deduction, and Kant's relations to his Aristotelian-Cartesian background are developed. Howell makes a contribution to the discussion of most of the disputed issues in the history of deduction interpretation. Controversial in its conclusions, this book should be of interest to those who take seriously the task of understanding Kant's work and evaluating it dispassionately.