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Lou Salomé (1861-1937)In Kristin Gjesdal (ed.), The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century women philosophers in the German tradition, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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14Wie erfahren wir uns selbst sinnlich? Ein Lösungsvorschlag zu Kants Paradox der SelbstaffektionIn Giuseppe Motta, Dennis Schulting & Udo Thiel (eds.), Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception: New Interpretations, De Gruyter. pp. 613-640. 2022.
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10Daniel Wehinger, Das präreflexive Selbst. Subjektivität als minimales SelbstbewusstseinPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 127 (1): 171-174. 2020.
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Kant's argument against psychological materialism in the ProlegomenaIn Peter Thielke (ed.), Kant's Prolegomena: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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47Précis of Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation and Replies to CriticsKantian Review 27 (3): 491-508. 2022.
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11The Puzzle of the Empirical Self and the Regulative Principles of ReasonIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1151-1160. 2021.
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45An expressivist interpretation of Kant's “I think” 1Noûs 56 (1): 110-132. 2022.Kant's theory of cognition centrally builds on his conception of self‐consciousness and the transcendental use of the phrase “I think”: the ability to add the phrase “I think” to a representation is a necessary condition of the ability to cognize objects. The paper argues that “I think”, rather than denoting the content of a predicative judgement, is typically an expression of the subject's thinking. It expresses a kind of self‐consciousness that, without assertively representing the subject its…Read more
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96An expressivist interpretation of Kant's “I think”Noûs 56 (1). 2022.Kant’s theory of cognition centrally builds on his conception of self-consciousness and the transcendental use of the phrase “I think”: the ability to add the phrase “I think” to a representation is a necessary condition of the ability to cognize objects. The paper argues that “I think”, rather than denoting the content of a predicative judgement, is typically an expression of the subject’s thinking. It expresses a kind of self-consciousness that, without assertively representing the subject its…Read more
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9Rede anlässlich der Verleihung des Kant-DissertationspreisesIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 61-64. 2018.
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51Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner ExperienceCambridge University Press. 2020.As the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, Kant famously calls on all humans to make up their own minds, independently from the constraints imposed on them by others. Kant's focus, however, is on universal human reason, and he tells us little about what makes us individual persons. In this book, Katharina T. Kraus explores Kant's distinctive account of psychological personhood by unfolding how, according to Kant, we come to know ourselves as such persons. Drawing on Kant's Critical works and …Read more
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65The Parity and Disparity between Inner and Outer Experience in KantKantian Review 24 (2): 171-195. 2019.This article advocates a new interpretation ofinner experience– the experience that one has of one’s empirical-psychological features ‘from within’ – in Kant. It argues that for Kant inner experience is the empirical cognition of mental states, but not that of a persistent mental substance. The schema of persistence is thereby substituted with the regulative idea of the soul. This view is shown to be superior to two opposed interpretations: the parity view that regards inner experience as empiri…Read more
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43Introduction to Kant's philosophy of science: Bridging the gap between the natural and the human sciencesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 71 1-5. 2018.
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125The soul as the ‘guiding idea’ of psychology: Kant on scientific psychology, systematicity, and the idea of the soulStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 71 77-88. 2018.This paper examines whether Kant’s Critical philosophy offers resources for a conception of empirical psychology as a theoretical science in its own right, rather than as a part of applied moral philosophy or of pragmatic anthropology. In contrast to current interpretations, this paper argues that Kant’s conception of inner experience provides relevant resources for the theoretical foundation of scientific psychology, in particular with respect to its subject matter and its methodological presup…Read more
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39Quantifying Inner Experience?—Kant's Mathematical Principles in the Context of Empirical PsychologyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 24 (2): 331-357. 2016.This paper shows why Kant's critique of empirical psychology should not be read as a scathing criticism of quantitative scientific psychology, but has valuable lessons to teach in support of it. By analysing Kant's alleged objections in the light of his critical theory of cognition, it provides a fresh look at the problem of quantifying first-person experiences, such as emotions and sense-perceptions. An in-depth discussion of applying the mathematical principles, which are defined in the Critiq…Read more
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78Kant and the 'soft sciences'Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42 (4): 618-624. 2011.
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Johns Hopkins UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
German Program, Department of Modern Languages and LiteraturesAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |