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PrefaceCitations, Abbreviations, and Previously Published Material Part I The Pre-Critical System1 Physics and Metaphysics 1.1 The Reconciliation Principle and First Attempt 1.2 The Legacy of the True Estimation1.3 Parting from Eclecticism 1.4 The Pre-Critical System1.5 Conclusions: Kant's Theory of Everything References 2 Kant's Analytic Method 2.1 Analysis and Synthesis in Early Modern Science and Philosophy2.2 Kant's Methodology in the 1755/56 Writings2.3 The Defense of the Analytic Method in the Prize Essay2.4 Comparison with the Only Possible Argument2.5 Conclusions: The Scope of the Analytic MethodReferences Part II The Critical Turn3 The Collapse of the Pre-Critical Cosmology3.1 The Logical vs. Real Use of Reason 3.2 Against Spiritism 3.3 The Concept of Space3.4 The Puzzle of Incongruent Counterparts 3.5 Conclusions: From Metaphysics to EpistemologyReferencesxvxvi Contents4 A Closer Look at the Critical Turn 4.1 What is Wrong with the Traditional View?4.2 Metaphysical Cognition at the Crossroads 4.3 In Search of a New Philosophical Method4.4 The Mathematical and the Metaphysical Infinite4.5 Conclusions: Reconsidering the Critical Turn ReferencesPart III Critical Cosmology5 The Antinomy of Pure Reason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1435.1 Objections and Refutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1445.2 General Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465.3 Specific Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1545.4 Logical Analysis of the Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1645.5 Conclusions: The Equivocations in the Cosmological Concept . . . . . 193References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986 Cosmology and Transcendental Idealism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2016.1 The Antinomy: A Self-Generated Problem? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2026.2 Against Transcendental Realism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2056.3 What Remains of the Pre-Critical Cosmology? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2176.4 The Teleology of Pure Reason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2236.5 Conclusions: Kant's Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234Part IV AppendixA Systematic Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239A.1 The Concept of a System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239A.2 The Analytic-Synthetic Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247A.3 The Logic of Cognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261Detailed Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Index of Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .