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These are the reading assignments for Winter Quarter, 2021. Page numbers are from the Werner Pluhar translation of the Critique and the James Ellington translation of the Prolegomena.
| Month | Day | Topic | Critique | Prolegomena |
| January | 4 | Introduction to Kant | 117-120 | |
| 6 | “Leibniz-Wolff” Metaphysics | 5-9, 15,27, 330-337, 755-774 | 1-8 | |
| 11 | Analytic and Synthetic Judgments | 43-68, 668-687 | 9-22 | |
| 13 | Space | 71-81 | 23-29 | |
| 18 | NO CLASS | |||
| 20 | Time | 85-87 | ||
| 25 | Transcendental Idealism | 81-84, 87-104 | 29-33, 105-108 | |
| 27 | Metaphysical Deduction | 105-140 | 35-43, 60-63 | |
| February | 1 | Transcendental Deduction | 141-150, 175-185 | |
| 3 | Transcendental Deduction | 185-203 | 43-45 | |
| 8 | Substance | 204-209, 220-233, 247-258 | ||
| 10 | Causality | 259-276 | 47-54 | |
| 15 | NO CLASS | |||
| 17 | Possibility, Existence, Necessity | 283-288, 292-302 | ||
| 22 | The External World | 288-292, 400-418 | ||
| 24 | Phenomena and Noumena | 303-322 | ||
| March | 1 | Rational Psychology | 346-387, 424-441 | 64-73 |
| 3 | The Magnitude of the World | 442-464, 525-529 | 73-78 | |
| 8 | Freedom vs. Determinism | 473-481, 535-553 | 78-82 | |
| 10 | Existence of God | 560-616 | 82-83, 85-98 | |
| 19 | Final Examination | Due 8:00 P.M. |