In focusing on the systematic deduction of the categories from a principle Schulting takes up
anew the controversial project of the eminent German Kant scholar Klaus Reich whose monograph
The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments made the case that the logical functions of
judgement can all be derived from the objective unity of apperception and can be shown to link
up with one another systematically. Common opinion among Kantians today has it that Kant did
not mean to derive the functions of judgement and accordingly the categories from the
principle of apperception. Schulting challenges this standard view and aims to resuscitate the
main motivation behind Reich's project. He argues in agreement with Reich's main thesis about
the derivability of the functions of judgement that Kant indeed does mean to derive in full a
priori fashion the categories from the principle of apperception. Schulting also shows that
given the general assumptions of the Critical philosophy Kant's derivation is successful and
that absent an account of the derivation of the categories from apperception the B-Deduction
cannot really be understood. New edition. First published 2012 as Kant's Deduction and
Apperception. Explaining the Categories (Palgrave Macmillan)
