Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Note on references and translations; Introduction; Part I. Kant's Discovery of Metaphysical Illusion: 1. Metaphysical error in the pre-critical works; 2. The Inaugural Dissertation; Part II. Fallacies and Illusions in the Critique of Pure Reason: 3. The transcendental employment of the understanding and the conflation of appearances and things in themselves; 4. Transcendental illusion; Part III. The Dialectical Influences of Pure Reason: 5. Rational psychology and the pseudo-rational idea of the soul; 6. Rational cosmology and the pseudo-empirical idea of the world; 7. Rational theology and the pseudo-rational idea of God; Part IV. Illusion and Systematicity: 8. The regulative employment of reason; Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Index.

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This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the doctrine of transcendental illusion.