Kant's Epistemology of Faith in the Critique of Pure Reason

The section of the Canon in the Critique of pure reason dedicated to Having an opinion, knowing and believing has been long time neglected and held for one of the mere final remark to the much more important preceding parts of the book, i.e. the aesthetic, the analytic and the dialectic. On the contrary, most recent scholarship pays special attention to this text, stressing Kant’s deepening of central epistemic concepts such as conviction, certainty, belief and faith. The present paper investigates the structure of the section showing on the one side, its peculiar way to deal with traditional questions of Western philosophy, on the other, Kant’s reformulation of them in the new framework of the critical enterprise