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33Sartre, J.-P., 322In Don Ross, Andrew Brook & David Thompson (eds.), Dennett’s Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment, Mit Press. 2000.
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Introducing the Self of Self-ConsciousnessPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 131 (1): 80-92. 2024.Ein zentrales Ziel von Transparency and Reflection ist es zu erklären, wie Selbstwissen möglich ist, während zugleich daran festgehalten wird, dass Wissen um Bewusstseinszustände ‚transparent‘ ist mit Blick auf unser Weltwissen. Ich möchte zeigen, dass die von Matthew Boyle bemühten Ressourcen – insbesondere „Bewusstsein als Subjekt“ und „Arten des Gegebenseins“ – nicht ausreichen, um die Einführung der Vorstellung eines Selbsts zu erklären, das vielfältige Zustände hat. Dagegen möchte ich vorsc…Read more
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16What 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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19Understanding the First Paralogism: A Friendly DisagreementKantian Review 1-10. forthcoming.My comments focus on Proops’s treatment of the Paralogisms. I agree with many aspects of his discussion, including his views about the project of Rational Psychology and his analyses of how, exactly, the arguments of the Paralogisms are defective in form, but I disagree with his interpretation of the First Paralogism. I argue that the source of confusion that Kant diagnoses is not the grammatical distribution of ‘I’ as singular, but the fact that the I-representation is both empty and necessary …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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5Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Critical Essays (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 1998.The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: What can we know and how can we know it? and What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments, and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those themes and arguments. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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65Kant’s Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic (review)Philosophical Review 107 (1): 155. 1998.Wonderfully clear, scholarly, and well argued, Kant’s Intuitionism offers a bold new interpretation of the thesis of the Transcendental Aesthetic. Falkenstein reads Kant as a “formal intuitionist.” That is, he takes Kant to have maintained that the forms of intuition, space, and time were given along with sensations. They were neither preexisting representations, nor intellectual or imaginative constructions out of sensations. In this context “given” contrasts with “constructed”; subjects’ repre…Read more
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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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82Recent Books on Kant: Kant's Theory of Imagination; Kant and the Experience of Freedom; Aesthetic Judgement and the Moral Image of the World; Dignity and Practical Reason; Immanuel Kant; Kant's Compatibilism; Kant's Transcendental Psychology; The Unity of Reason; Kant's Theory of Justice (review)Philosophical Quarterly 46 (183): 226. 1996.
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31Kant’s Theory of Mind: An Analysis of the Paralogisms of Pure ReasonPhilosophical Review 92 (2): 285. 1983.
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118Kant's Transcendental PsychologyOup Usa. 1990.In this innovative study Patricia Kitcher argues that we can only understand the deduction of the categories in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in terms of his attempt to fathom the psychological prerequisites of thought. Thus a consideration of his conception of psychology is essential to an understanding of his philosophy. Kitcher specifically considers Kant's claims about the unity of the thinking self; the spatial forms of human perceptions; the relations among mental states necessary for the…Read more
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34The World According to Kant: Appearances and Things in Themselves in Critical Idealism by Anja Jauernig (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 61 (1): 160-162. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The World According to Kant: Appearances and Things in Themselves in Critical Idealism by Anja JauernigPatricia KitcherAnja Jauernig. The World According to Kant: Appearances and Things in Themselves in Critical Idealism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 400. Hardback, $105.00.After Peter Strawson's withering criticisms of the "Metaphysics of Transcendental Idealism" in The Bounds of Sense (London: Methuen, 1966…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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38Kant on Self‐Knowledge and Self‐Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience Katharina T. Kraus Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. xiii + 306, ISBN: 9781108836647 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 29 (3): 679-682. 2021.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 679-682, September 2021.
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19Explaining Freedom in Thought and ActionIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 185-208. 2018.
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16A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian PsychologyPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (1): 268-271. 1999.
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6What Can Humans Cognize about the Self from Experience? Comments on Corey Dyck’s “The Development of Kant’s Psychology during the 1770’s”Con-Textos Kantianos 3 345-352. 2016.I agree with Dyck’s basic claim that Kant follows the methodology of Rational Psychology in setting up his critique of it: He starts as it starts, with an existential proposition ‘I think.’ On the other hand, I am not convinced of Dyck’s use of the Dreams essay in establishing a timeline for the development of Kant’s views on inner sense. That essay is evidence that Kant thinks that Schwendenborg’s metaphysics is ungrounded, because he has a crazy sort of inner sense, but it does not show that K…Read more
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25The Self: A History (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021."No philosophical dictum is better known than Descartes's assertion about the intimate relation between thinking and existing. What remains unknown is how we are to understand the 'I' who thinks and exists. This book is about the ways that the concept of an 'I' or a 'self' has been developed and deployed at different times in the history of Western Philosophy. It also offers a striking contrast case, the 'interconnected' self, who appears in some expressions of African Philosophy. Appealing to p…Read more
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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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14Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis. Adolf Grunbaum (review)Philosophy of Science 62 (1): 166-167. 1995.
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