In Our Time: S23/35 Kant's Copernican Revolution (June 3 2021)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the insight into our relationship with the world that Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) shared in his book The Critique of Pure Reason in 1781. It was as revolutionary, in his view, as when the Polish astronomer Copernicus realised that Earth revolves around the Sun rather than the Sun around Earth. Kant's was an insight into how we understand the world around us, arguing that we can never know the world as it is, but only through the structures of our minds which shape that understanding. This idea, that the world depends on us even though we do not create it, has been one of Kant’s greatest contributions to philosophy and influences debates to this day.

The image above is a portrait of Immanuel Kant by Friedrich Wilhelm Springer

With Fiona Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Essex; Anil Gomes, Associate Professor and Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford; and John Callanan, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London. Producer: Simon Tillotson.

READING LIST

Jill Vance Buroker, Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Sebastian Gardner, Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (Routledge, 1999)

Paul Guyer, Kant (Routledge, 2014)

Fiona Hughes, Kant's Aesthetic Epistemology: Form and World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

Fiona Hughes, ‘Kant's Phenomenological Reduction?’ (Études phénoménologiques, vol. XXII, Nos 43-4, 2007)

Immanuel Kant (trans. Paul Guyer and Allen Wood), Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Immanuel Kant (ed. Mary J. Gregor), An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

A.W. Moore, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

James R. O'Shea, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction and Interpretation (Routledge, 2011)

P. Rabinow (ed.), The Foucault Reader (Pantheon Books, 1984), especially 'What is Enlightenment?' by Foucault

P.F. Strawson, The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Routledge, 2018)

Ralph C.S. Walker, Kant: The Arguments of the Philosophers (Routledge, 2010)

Allen Wood, Kant (Blackwell, 2004)

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