Immanuel Kant's theory of experience.

Abstract

The goal of this thesis are, firstly, to critically explicate the role of the understanding in making experience possible (where experience is defined as 'empirical knowledge of objects'), and, secondly, to argue that Kant's conclusion regarding the possibility of experience is not tenable. My argument is essentially that the schematism of the pure concepts does not succeed in bridging the gap between sensibility and understanding. I suggest that not only does the schematism not succeed in providing the pure concepts with sensible content, but that nothing could provide them with such content.