Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics in Focus

Is metaphysical knowledge possible? What kind of knowledge can be called metaphysical? What is the source of metaphysical knowledge? Such are the questions addressed by Kant in his famous Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. His ultimate argument, that there is no such thing as metaphysics, continues to fascinate and challenge contemporary philosophers.

This book provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of some issues and problems raised by Kant. In addition to the Carus translation of Kant's work, it offers a substantive new introduction, six seminal essays on the Prolegomena never before published together and an extensive bibliography. Special attention is paid to the relationship between Kant and David Hume, whose treatment of causality, according to Kant's famous quote, first interrupted Kant's "dogmatic slumber".