Il ruolo dell’immaginazione nella deduzione trascendentale delle categorie

The aim of this paper is to examine the role that Kant assigned to the imagination, in the transcendental\r\ndeduction of the categories. As it is known, this role is highly controversial: some\r\nscholars are convinced that the imagination has a function which is merely ancillary and subordinated\r\nto the intellect (and to the sensibility); while others retain that its role is relevant, even\r\nthough the intellect alone is entitled to a place of honor in the first Critique. My point is that it\r\nis possible to argue that imagination has a crucial role in the deduction of the pure concepts of\r\nthe intellect, precisely because the conceptual architecture of The Critique of Pure Reason is\r\nthreefold and not simply twofold.