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Kant repeatedly claims his critical enterprise is analogous to pure general logic (PGL) in embodying the self-knowledge of reason. I argue that PGL is self-knowledge in the sense that its claims are epistemically grounded in pure apperception, which yields insight into the form of thinking in general. Kant’s critical epistemology, as distinct from his critical metaphysics, is self-knowledge in an analogous sense: It is an apperceptively grounded inquiry into the form of all a priori thought about objects. I develop an account of the purity, generality, and formality of PGL, which I then leverage into an outline of the apperceptive method that underwrites Kant’s faculty psychology. This novel account of Kant’s critical method distinguishes it from the analytical but dogmatic method of Wolff and the reflective but empirical methods of Locke and Tetens.

In this book Daniel Smyth offers a comprehensive overview of Immanuel Kant's conception of intuition in all its species – divine, receptive, sensible, and human. Kant considers sense perception a paradigm of intuition, yet claims that we can represent infinities in intuition, despite the finitude of sense perception. Smyth examines this heterodox combination of commitments and argues that the various features Kant ascribes to intuition are meant to remedy specific cognitive shortcomings that arise from the discursivity of our intellect Intuition acting as the intellect's cognitive partner to make knowledge possible. He reconstructs Kant's conception of intuition and its role in his philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of mathematics, and shows that Kant's conception of sensibility is as innovative and revolutionary as his much-debated theory of the understanding.

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Intuition in Kant