First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The significance of Kant's philosophy is to be found primarily in his theory of knowledge, a theory that is set forth in his voluminous work, The Critique ...

Justus Hartnack provides a highly accessible, philosophically astute introduction to Hegel’s logic.

To his question whether the heated wax, Despite its changing properties, Remains the same piece of wax, Descartes simply answers that it does and that no one would judge otherwise. It is argued that the reason why this is so can be neither empirical nor can it be of a logical deductive kind. The reason is transcendental, That is, The concept of that which does not change during change is a necessary condition, I.E., It is a category. It is a (...) necessary condition for any language to be used to talk about and to describe the world of change. (shrink)

A reprint of the Macmillan edition of 1968. While most interpretive studies of the _Critique of Pure Reason_ are either too scholarly or too superficial to be of practical use to students, Hartnack has achieved a concise comprehensive analysis of the work in a lucid style that communicates the essence of extraordinarily complex arguments in the simplest possible way. An ideal companion to the _First Critique_, especially for those grappling with the work for the first time.