Imagination and Reflective Judgement

Abstract Although the third Critique is not explicitly concerned with the problem of schematization, it is the main text in which Kant provides sustained consideration of the ways in which imagination might mediate between the various elements of cognition. Indeed, given that the third Critique is a critique of the faculty of judgement, we should expect that it is at least pertinent to the problem of judgement as Kant introduces it just prior to the Schematism chapter. ‘Reflective judgement’ —which is the focus of the third Critique—is best understood as naming not just a species of judgement, but also Kant’s account of the subjective conditions of judgement in general.