A Guide to Kants Psychologism: via Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Wittgenstein

This book presents an interpretation of Kants Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism. It groups Kants philosophy together with those of the British empiricistsLocke, Berkeley, and Humein a single line of psychologistic succession and offers a clear explanation of how Kants psychologism differs from psychology and idealism. The book reconciles Kants philosophy with subsequent developments in science and mathematics, including post-Fregean mathematical logic, non-Euclidean geometry, and both relativity and quantum theory. It also relates Kants psychologism to Wittgensteins later conception of language. Finally, the author reveals the ways in which Kants philosophy dovetails with contemporary scientific theorizing about the natural phenomenon of consciousness and its place in nature. This book will be of interest to Kant scholars and historians of philosophy working on the British empiricists.