The Schema, and the Answer to Hume

There is a chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason that Immanuel Kant himself calls an art hidden in the depth of the human soul, and Paul Guyer thinks the mystery is overstated. This episode watches him take the schematism apart: how concepts made of pure logic get translated into time, what the translation costs, and the strange gift the cost leaves behind, a way of thinking past the senses without pretending it is knowledge. Then comes Hume, who found nothing in cause and effect but habit. Kant's reply, Guyer shows, runs on two levels, and one of them is still open. Come hear how much work a schema can do.