The first detailed study of Kant's method of 'transcendental reflection' and its use in the Critique of Pure Reason.

Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy, Bogaziçi Üniversitesi (Istanbul). His research focuses on the character and scope of rational justification in non-formal, substantive domains, both moral (ethics, justice, history and philosophy of law, philosophy of education) and theoretical (epistemology, history and philosophy of science). His books include Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism (Cambridge, 2004), How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law: Justifying Strict Objectivity without Debating Moral Realism (Clarendon, 2016), Grounds of Pragmatic Realism: Hegel's Internal Critique and Transformation of Kant's Critical Philosophy (Brill, 2018), Hegel's Civic Republicanism: Integrating Natural Law with Kant's Moral Constructivsm (Routledge, 2020) and Kant's Critical Epistemology: Why Epistemology must Consider Judgment First (Routledge, 2020). He is researching systematically history and philosophy of law, especially Montesquieu, G.W.F. Hegel and Rudolf von Jhering, to develop a cogent normative sociological theory of law and justice.

Introduction; 1. Kant's methods: transcendental and epistemic reflection; 2. The metaphysics of Kant's transcendental idealism; 3. Transcendental affinity; 4. The gap in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; 5. Kant's dynamic misconstructions; 6. Kant's metaphysical proof of the law of inertia; 7. Three Kantian insights; Appendix. Summary of Kant's Transcendental Proof of the Legitimacy of Causal Judgments.