{"product_id":"possible-experience-9780520214996","title":"Possible Experience","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eArthur Collins's succinct, revisionist exposition of Kant's \u003ci\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e brings a new clarity to this notoriously difficult text. Until recently most readers, ascribing broadly Cartesian assumptions to Kant, have concluded that the \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e advances an idealist philosophy, because Kant calls it \"transcendental idealism\" and because the work abounds in apparent confirmations of that interpretation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollins maintains not only that this reading of Kant is false but also that it conceals Kant's real achievements. To counter it, he addresses the themes and passages in the \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e that seem to require an idealist thesis and shows how they may be better understood without ascribing any idealist philosophy to Kant. His account coheres with Kant's explicit \"refutations\" of idealism, it fits Kant's rejection of the imputation of idealism to him by early critics and readers, and it validates Kant's contention that the second edition of the \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e changes the expression but not the doctrine of the first.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arthur Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959951888502,"sku":"9780520214996","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_4d374685-a286-49a7-921a-1b745996550d.jpg?v=1767786593","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/possible-experience-9780520214996","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}