KANT For this assignment you are asked to write a short essay, of around 1,000 – 1,200 words (do only 2 pages), on the following: Kant’s synthesizing ‘Copernican’ response to Hume in terms of His concept of the understanding as the “law-giver to nature”. His theory of mental categories as “pure concepts of the understanding”. Why he referred to his system as “Copernican”. How he believed the “mental categories” applied to causal situations as well as to material phenomena. Please keep within the recommended word-count and acknowledge all sources by way of annotation and bibliography.
