In the Critique of Impure Reason Bartlett builds on a series of previous publications by him that span a period of more than 50 years. The book's objective is to understand the unavoidable boundaries of the frameworks we use, and to help us to avoid conceptual confusions that come about when attempts are made to transgress beyond what is possible and meaningful.īackground Previously published work by Bartlett leading to the Critique of Impure Reason When we try to trespass beyond these boundaries, which the Critique of Impure Reason calls the " horizons" of reference, we employ concepts and make claims that violate the very conditions that must be granted for them to possess any possible meaning. The central thesis of the book is that many major traditional philosophical problems can be solved in a rationally compelling manner once we recognize and rein in the many ways in which we seek to overstep these limiting boundaries. In the book, Bartlett explains that by a " critique of impure reason" is meant a critique of the limitative boundaries beyond which concepts and claims lead to " impure reason," undermining the very conditions of their possible meaning.
A study of the limits of knowledge, reference, epistemic possibility, and meaning, it is the most extensive philosophical work by Bartlett to date. Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of scienceĬritique of Impure Reason: Horizons of Possibility and Meaning is a book by American philosopher Steven James Bartlett. "Critique of Impure Reason: Horizons of Possibility and Meaning," 2021 first US printed edition
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