PHIL 423 Final exam questions Spring 2003 McCann

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1. In what ways does Kant use his distinctions between intuitions and concepts, and sensibility, understanding, and reason, against Leibnizian rationalism?

2. Explain what transcendental idealism is by contrasting Kant's views on space and time with the respective views of Newton and Leibniz. What does Kant mean when he says that the transcendental idealist is an empirical realist, and that the transcendental realist is an empirical idealist?

3. Sketch the argument of the second analogy, and evaluate it as an answer to Hume.

4. What is the aim of rational psychology, and what is its chief mistake? Provide an account of the arguments of the First and/or the Third Paralogism(s) in A as a detailed illustration of your answer.

5. Detail the argument of the Refutation of Idealism. How might the skeptic (problematic idealist) respond to this argument?