List of Figures Introduction 1. Kant's revolution Why start a revolution The rationalists and the Library of Babel The empiricists and Funes the Memorious Refounding metaphysics by overturning the point of view 2. The basic claims The scheme of the work The metaphysics of experience Five ontological theses Two epistemological theses Where to find them 3. What is inherited (Examination) New wine in old bottles Kant's metaphysics The models of the Critique of Pure Reason The naturalization of physics Consequences 4. What is novel (Examination) Kant and the platypus Phenomenon and noumenon Deduction, schematism, and imagination The hundred thalers Synthetic a priori judgments Are synthetic a priori judgments possible? Dogmas of empiricism and dogmas of transcendentalism 5. The Transcendental Fallacy (Examination) A semi-catastrophe The purloined letter A mind-dependent world An avoidable fallacy 6. Conceptual Schemes and Phenomena Over-powerful spectacles The Thesis of Conceptual Schemes Are intuitions without concepts blind? Are concepts without intuitions empty? The Thesis of the Phenomena 7. Space and Time What is the Transcendental Aesthetic? Space Time The meaning of mathemathization 8.

Self, Substance, and Cause Self: The world as representations Substance Cause 9. Logical apparatus (Examination) A complicated contrivance First Gadget: Judgments and Categories (Metaphysical deduction) Second Gadget: Deduction Deduction A: Theory of knowledge Deduction B: Transcendental psychology Third Gadget: The Schematism How a schema works: Kant's hints How a schema works: A speculative hypothesis The timeline Why it doesn't work Could it have worked? Fourth Gadget: Principles Afterword on reciprocal action 10. From phenomena to screwdrivers The deduction of naturalization The Critique of Practical Reason The Critique of Judgment 11. Reckoning with the revolution A spectre is haunting Europe Matrix Kant and Talleyrand An Iroquois in Paris From Kant to Kafka Notes Index.