Abstract
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the claim made by Michael Friedman that it was the scientific paradigm change from Stahlian to anti-phlogistic chemistry that triggered Immanuel Kant to start working on the manuscript of the ‘Opus postumum’ (OP). It focuses on the notion of transcendental schematism presented in the first Critique, then it considers the metaphysics of corporeal nature developed in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science through a procedure, which is analogous to the schematism. The book also discusses the drafts constituting the OP in which Kant hints at the ether being a ground of schematism. It deals with a crucial development of the first Critique in Kant’s Transition Project. The book offers a systematic reconstruction of a lesser-known interpretation of the OP.
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