The Coherence of Kant's Transcendental Idealism

1. Introduction Kant considered the doctrine of transcendental idealism an indisp— sable part of the theory of knowledge presented in the Critique of Pure Reason. My aim in this book is to present a new defense of the coh— ence and plausibility of Kant’s transcendental idealism and its indisp— sability for his theory of knowledge. I will show that the main argument of the Transcendental Aesthetic and the Transcendental Analytic is — fensible independently of some of Kant’s claims which are ...