The central project of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" was to answer two questions: what can we know and how can we know it? and what can't we know and why can't we know these things? These essays should help students read Kant's text with a greater understanding of its central themes.

The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: What can we know and how can we know it? and What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments, and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those themes and arguments.