ABSTRACT
This chapter critically examines three key works of analytic Kantianism: C.I. Lewis, Mind and the World Order, P.F. Strawson, The Bounds of Sense, and Wilfrid Sellars, Science and Metaphysics, focussing on their respective approaches to Kant’s transcendental deduction. I begin with some characteristics of early analytic philosophy which framed analytic philosophers’ views of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, in order then to highlight how the three works re-examined here help build bridges between Kant’s philosophy and recent epistemology and philosophy of language. Each of these works contributed to philosophy and highlighted philosophical opportunities which deserve continuing consideration. I then consider two recent commentators, McDowell and Greenberg, to identify shortcomings which result from over-simplifying Kant’s nuanced and sophisticated accounts of distinctive kinds of modality: logical, transcendental, causal, and (1st order) cognitive or justificatory.
