The Bounds of Sense

"The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason" is a 1966 book by P.F. Strawson, a 20th century Oxford philosopher. The book is a critical reading of Kant's text (referring to parts of it as proceeding "by a non sequitur of numbing grossness"Citation
author = Strawson, P. F.
year = 1990
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=OK_6mMFFsJ8C&pg=PA137&vq=numbing+grossness&dq=bounds+sense+peter+strawson&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_search_s&sig=ACfU3U3BJMZ_Y5rHQvIk8OGjeAy8yv8pnw
page = 137
title = The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
isbn = 0415040302
publisher = Routledge] ), with an emphasis on the analytical argument of the "transcendental deduction", which Strawson takes to be one of the few lasting contributions Kant made to philosophy. The 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 either those of reason or sensation. The book, along with Jonathan Bennett's "Kant's Analytic" (Cambridge, 1966), reinvigorated Kant studies.

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