Anderson, Abraham: Rousseau, Hume, and the _Dreams of a Spirit-Seer_

In The Skeptical Roots of Critique: Hume's Attack on Theology and the Origin of Kant's Antinomy. New York, US: OUP Usa. pp. 19-35. 2025Michael Forster has proposed that the _Dreams of a Spirit-Seer_ represent Kant’s engagement with a Pyrrhonian skepticism about metaphysics, and correspond to the first awakening from dogmatic slumber which Kant attributes to the Antinomy. This chapter supports Forster’s proposal by considering a suggestion by Ezequiel de Olaso that the Antinomy was inspired by th