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This book is organized as a commentary following the text of the B-Transcendental Deduction line by line. In so doing, it becomes evident that each step of the Deduction necessarily follows from the preceding step and is grounded in it, although not in the way the steps of a formal-logic deduction are. The primary hypothesis of this book is that the succession of steps is but the unfolding of the Principle of Apperception. The commentary assumes that the entire argument of the B-Deduction consists in a progressive enlargement and enrichment of the Principle of Apperception. The book draws its unity from this assumption, as well as from the strong concatenation of the successive steps. Focusing the monograph on the very narrow problem of the B-Deduction's argumentative structure enables the author to settle several controversial questions, such as, for instance, those originating in the division of the B-Deduction in two steps, and that of the function of the doctrine of the transcendental subject expounded in paragraphs 24 and 25. Its comprehensive explanation of the Transcendental Deduction ensures that the book will be helpful to students of Kantian Philosophy, while its focus on a single problem will make it useful to specialists. Kant's B Deduction is part of the Kantian Questions series.

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- I: Kritischer Realismus -- Alois Riehl – Leben, Werk und Wirkung -- Objekt und Objektivität in Kant und Riehl -- Alois Riehl's Epistemological Argument for Realism about Things in Themselves -- Riehls Auffassung der transzendentalen Deduktion der reinen Verstandesbegriffe -- Alois Riehls transzendentaler Realismus -- Alois Riehl und die Frage des psychophysischen Parallelismus -- Freedom and Determinism in Alois Riehl's The Philosophical Criticism -- II: Wissenschaftlicher Realismus -- Alois Riehl and Scientific Philosophy -- Alois Riehl über Hermann von Helmholtz und die Bedeutung geometrischer Axiome -- Alois Riehl and the Principle of the Conservation of Energy -- Riehl's 'Objectivist' Account of Perception -- Kantian Externalism from Riehl to Putnam -- III: Kontexte -- Heterothesis, Antithesis und die Transzendentalphilosophie. Zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen Alois Riehl und Heinrich Rickert -- Zum Einfluss von Alois Riehl auf Richard Hönigswald -- 'Realistischer Kritizismus' und 'Österreichischer Neukantianismus' -- Riehl als Neukantianer -- Riehls Geschichtsbegriff: Analyse und Kritik -- "Alle großen Dinge kommen aus der großen Leidenschaft her": Zu Alois Riehls Bild von Friedrich Nietzsche -- "Alle poetischen Ideen sind Bilder": Alois Riehl und das Problem der Form in der Kunst -- IV: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte -- Transzendentale Systeme im Wien des 20. Jahrhunderts -- The Reception and Rejection of Alois Riehl's Philosophy in Poland: Jan Stepa and Władysław Tatarkiewicz -- Appendix -- Alois Riehl (1824–1924): Selected Archive Sources on Life and Work -- Personenregister