HMP Seminar Week 2

Prefaces and Introduction to CPR

(1) What is (an) intuition? How is the word “intuition”

used by other philosophers?

(2) Why should we think there is anything in the

mind a priori, at all?

(3) In what sense is a priori knowledge “independent

of” experience?

(4) Can experience show us necessary truths? If not,

as Kant claims, then why not?

(5) What role do mathematics, physics and geometry

(among others) play in Kant’s arguments for
transcendental idealism?

(6) Explain Kant’s argument for the claim that

arithmetical propositions are synthetic.

(7) What is a “transcendental argument”? What is

“transcendental knowledge”, knowledge of?

(8) Explain the “Copernican revolution” metaphor.