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4Kant's real selfIn Allen W. Wood (ed.), Self and nature in Kant's philosophy, Cornell University Press. pp. 113--47. 1984.
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2Matter in Mind: A Study of Kant's Transcendental Deduction (review)Review of Metaphysics 43 (4): 851-851. 1990.Richard Aquila's study tackles a number of difficult and important issues in the Transcendental Deduction, issues that are frequently slighted. In recent decades, the fashion has been to read Kant as if his primary target were skepticism and his primary weapon "transcendental" arguments that turn on the meaning of certain key terms in our conceptual scheme. As Aquila notes, this cannot be the entire or essential story of the Transcendental Deduction, for it offers a theory of the formation of co…Read more
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1Kant’s philosophy of the cognitive mindIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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Narrow Taxonomy and Wide FunctionalismIn Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper & J. D. Trout (eds.), The Philosophy of Science, Mit Press. pp. 671--85. 1991.
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Lichtenberg's 'Es denkt' versus Kant's 'Ich denke'In Giovanni Pietro Basile & Ansgar Lyssy (eds.), System and freedom in Kant and Fichte, Routledge. 2022.
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Idealism, subjects and scienceIn James Conant & Jesse M. Mulder (eds.), Reading Rödl: on Self-consciousness and objectivity, Routledge. 2023.
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What is Necessary and What is Contingent in Kant’s Empirical Self?Sententiae 43 (1): 8-17. 2024.How does Kant understand the representation of an empirical self? For Kant, the sources of the representation must be both a priori and a posteriori. Several scholars claim that the a priori part of the ‘self’ representation is supplied by the category of ‘substance,’ either a regular substance (Andrew Chignell), a minimal substance (Karl Ameriks) or a substance analog (Katharina Kraus). However, Kant opens the Paralogisms chapter by announcing that there is a thirteenth ‘transcendental’ concept…Read more
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Lichtenberg's 'Es denkt' versus Kant's 'Ich denke'In Giovanni Pietro Basile & Ansgar Lyssy (eds.), System and freedom in Kant and Fichte, Routledge. 2022.
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Scientific understanding and the causal structure of the worldIn Philip Kitcher & Wesley Salmon (eds.), Scientific Explanation, Univ of Minnesota Pr. pp. 410--505. 1989.
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