Allais, writing in 2019, stated that the book "remains a classic work" she also praised its style of writing. The Bounds of Sense has been praised by philosophers such as John McDowell, Charles Parsons, Roger Scruton, and Howard Caygill. In 2019, the book was republished by Routledge, with a new foreword by the philosopher Lucy Allais. The Bounds of Sense was first published in 1966 by Methuen & Co. His title is a play on a title Kant himself proposed for the Critique of Pure Reason, with "sense" referring both to the mind and the sense faculties, and hence the bounds can be those of either reason or sensation.īackground and publication history Īccording to Strawson, the book originated in lectures on the Critique of Pure Reason he began giving in 1959 at the University of Oxford. Strawson provides a critical reading of Kant's text (referring to parts of it as proceeding "by a non sequitur of numbing grossness"), with an emphasis on the analytical argument of the Transcendental Deduction, which he considers one of the few lasting contributions Kant made to philosophy.
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