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University of California, Davis
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- The third paper topic has been assigned.
These are the reading assignments for this class. Readings are from the Werner Pluhar translation of the Critique and the James Ellington translation of the Prolegomena.
| Month | Day | Topic | Critique | Prolegomena |
| January | 9 | Introduction to Kant | 117-120 | |
| 11 | “Leibniz-Wolff” Metaphysics | 5-40, 323-343, 755-774 | 1-8 | |
| 16 | NO CLASS | |||
| 18 | Analytic and Synthetic Judgments | 43-68, 668-687 | 9-22 | |
| 23 | Space | 71-81 | 23-29 | |
| 25 | Time | 85-87 | ||
| 30 | Transcendental Idealism | 81-84, 87-104 | 29-33, 105-108 | |
| February | 1 | Metaphysical Deduction | 105-140 | 35-43, 60-63 |
| 6 | Transcendental Deduction | 141-150, 175-185 | ||
| 8 | Transcendental Deduction | 185-203 | 43-45 | |
| 13 | Substance | 204-209, 220-233, 247-258 | ||
| 15 | Causality | 259-276 | 47-54 | |
| 20 | NO CLASS | |||
| 22 | Possibility, Existence, Necessity | 283-288, 292-302 | ||
| 27 | The External World | 288-292, 400-418 | ||
| 29 | Phenomena and Noumena | 303-322 | ||
| March | 5 | Rational Psychology | 346-387, 424-441 | 64-73 |
| 7 | The Magnitude of the World | 442-464, 525-529 | 73-78 | |
| 12 | Freedom vs. Determinism | 473-481, 535-553 | 78-82 | |
| 14 | Existence of God | 560-616 | 82-98 | |
| 19 | Practical Reason | 728-755 |