Includes bibliographical references.

The Patchwork Thesis -- The Trascendental Deduction of the Categories in the First Edition of the Critique of Pure reason : Hans Vaihinger -- Is the Trascendental Deduction a Patchwork? H. J. Paton -- Kant and The Problem of Metaphysics -- Kant's Antithesis of Dogmatism and Criticism: Arthur O. Lovejoy -- Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics: Ernst Cassirer Metaphysical Motives in the Development of Critical Idealism: Heinz Heimsoeth -- Kant's Theory of The Synthetic - Analytic Distinction -- Kant's Theory of Definition: Lewis White Beck -- Can Kant's Deduction of the Categories: H. J. Paton -- Kant's Classification of the Forms of Judgment: Arthur O. Lovejoy -- On kant's Reply to Hume: Arthur O. Lovejoy

The core essays with critical commentary by the editor illuminate the tree crucial problems in Kant's philosophy, still open argument in our time. in the first section of the book, the contributors ask whether kant's argument in the Trascendental Deduction of the categories is the unified and cogent piece of reasoning kant took it to be. The papers in the second section ask about the relation between the Trascendental Method as Kant understood it and the viability of traditional metaphysics. Here the issue is whether Kant's own position is metaphysically neutral, as he claims it to be, or whether Kant himself presupposes a hidden metaphysics. Finally, the third section analytic judgments, asking primarily whether Kant succeeded in giving us a workable criterion for applying that distinction, and whether he succeeded in showing that the are judgments that are both synthetic and a priori.