Professor: Abe Stone
abestone@ucsc.edu
Office: Cowell Annex A-106
Phone (office): 459-5723
AIM: abestone3
Office hours: Mon. 2-3pm, Tues. 1-2pm, or by appointment.
Teaching Assistant:
Al Petrie (apetrie@ucsc.edu)
Section attendance (this is no longer mandatory, but still strongly recommended). Take-home midterm exam (a choice of essay questions), due Tues., May 15; take-home final exam (ditto), due Tues., June 12. Students who receive an A- or higher on the midterm may choose to write a final paper (approximately 8-10 pages) in place of the final, on a topic to be discussed in advance with the instructor and/or the TA.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, tr. Norman Kemp-Smith (ISBN: 1403911959).
The above text should be available at the Literary Guillotine. Some commentaries and secondary works are available on reserve at McHenry (see below).
For reasons I will discuss, we will be reading
almost exclusively the text of the first (``A'') edition. Page numbers
in both the first and second (``B'') editions are marked in the margin
of Kemp-Smith's translation. In a few cases you will have to pay
careful attention to piece together what belongs to the A text (for
example, there are places where the B text adds a few paragraphs to
the middle of a section--those additional B-edition paragraphs are
not part of the assigned reading).
I have put on reserve the following secondary texts,
which you may or may not find useful: Walsh, Kant's Criticism of
Metaphysics; Gardner, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant
and the Critique of Pure Reason; Strawson, The Bounds of
Sense; Bennett, Kant's Analytic and Kant's
Dialectic; Allison, Kant's Transcendental Idealism; Guyer,
ed., Cambridge Companion to Kant. (The first two on this list
have been highly recommended to me as beginning-level texts, but I
haven't read them myself as of now; your mileage may vary. The others
are somewhat more involved. Strawson and Bennett are basically
anti-Kant--they claim to think that he's a great philosopher, but
attack and ridicule most of what he actually says--whereas Allison is
basically pro-Kant. The Cambridge Companion is a collection of
essays by various authors. There is plenty of other literature on
Kant, of course.)