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Overview of the Kant readings:

• The preface to the second edition and introduction:  pp. 634-646.
  • the Copernican turn
  • the a priori/a posteriori distinction
  • the analytic/synthetic distinction
  • synthetic a priori knowledge

• The Aesthetic: pp. 646-653.
  • space and time are imputed
• The Analytic of Concepts: (pp. 654- 672)
  •  pp. 662-672: Transcendental Deduction:  the unity of our consciousness requires that our experience is experience of an essentially orderly phenomenal world.
  •  pp. 688-695: The Second Analogy: our experience can be like that only if the phenomenal world obeys causal laws.
  •  pp. 697-698: Refutation of Material Idealism:  Kant's view is not Berkeley's view.
  • So, we have synthetic a priori knowledge of the phenomenal world.