Editors' Introduction

This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part provides to capture the advantages of both one–world and two–world interpretations. It discusses Transcendental Idealism a metaphysical view and at the same time explains what our connection with things in themselves consists in. The key ingredient is her claim that when Kant talks about appearances, he's really talking about the relational properties of things. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is an extended argument for the view he calls 'Transcendental Idealism.' Kant's readers from the eighteenth century on have disagreed about how transcendental idealism is best understood.