"Immanuel Kant's three critiques - the Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment - are among the pinnacles of Western Philosophy. This accessible study grounds Kant's philosophical position in the context of his intellectual influences, most notably against the background of the scepticism and empiricism of David Hume. It is an ideal critical introduction to Kant's views in the key areas of knowledge anti metaphysics, morality and freedom, and beauty and design."--Jacket.

Ch. 1. A general introduction to Kant's Copernican revolution in philosophy, and its relation to scientific knowledge and transcendent metaphysics -- Ch. 2. The division of judgments, and the status of mathematics and natural science -- Ch. 3. The transcendental aesthetic : the nature of space and time -- Ch. 4. The transcendental analytic : how our experience -- our knowledge of objects in space and time -- is made possible -- Ch. 5. The transcendental dialectic : why no theoretical knowledge in transcendent metaphysics is possible -- Ch. 6. The analytic of pure practical reason : reason, not sentiment, as the foundation of morality, and how freedom of the will is proved -- Ch. 7. The dialectic of pure practical reason : how morality establishes the existence of God and the immortality of the soul -- Ch. 8. The importance of Kant's Copernican revolution to his moral philosophy -- Ch. 9. The analytic of aesthetic judgment : defending a third way between an empiricist and a traditional rationalist theory of taste and beauty -- Ch. 10. The dialectic of aesthetic judgment : why the judgment of taste and our attitude to natural beauty require a Copernican revolution in aesthetics -- Ch. 11. A Kantian or an empiricist theory of taste? -- Ch. 12. Teleology and the principle of the finality of nature.