PHIL 57504 Kant’s Critique of Judgment
This will be a study of Kant’s third and final Critique, his Critique of Judgment. We will attempt to survey they book as a whole, including Kant’s influential account of the nature of judgments of beauty and sublimity, as well as his theory of “teleological” judgment and its place in our understanding of the natural world. We will also seek to comprehend and assess Kant’s claim that these studies constitute essential contributions to a critique of our cognitive power of judgment, a critique which is crucial to the completion of his larger “critical” project surveying the scope and limits of human cognition as a whole. (IV)
Students not in Philosophy or Social Thought should consult the instructor before enrolling.