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      • In the Paralogisms of Pure Reason, Kant examines the nature of the self and the problem of apperceptive consciousness as inherited from the ‘rational psychologists’. Kant realized that the elusiveness of the ‘I’ of the ‘I think’ has import not only for epistemology but for our view of persons, and thus for moral philosophy as well.
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  2. Jul 26, 2004 · In this article, we will focus on Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) work on the mind and consciousness of self and related issues. Some commentators believe that Kant’s views on the mind are dependent on his idealism (he called it transcendental idealism). For the most part, that is not so.

  3. Oct 22, 2024 · The present essay argues that a sound understanding of the latter topic is a precondition for making sense of Kant’s claims about self-consciousness, and that an understanding of the relation between these two topics is crucial to an appreciation of what is distinctive in his theory of cognition.

  4. Jul 13, 2017 · Kant’s account of self-consciousness and its significance is complex, a central element of the Transcendental Deduction being the claim that a form of self-awareness—transcendental apperception—is required to account for the unity of conscious experience over time.

  5. Kant’s theory of pure apperception, or transcendental self-consciousness, 1 is a central element of his philosophy and has a long and complex history of interpretation. In the Deduction, Kant wants to explain what self-consciousness is and what function it has.

  6. Aug 17, 2020 · Kant is said to be the first to distinguish between consciousness of oneself as the subject of one’s experiences and consciousness of oneself as an object, which he calls transcendental and empirical apperception, respectively.

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    • 2021
  7. This book explores the consequences of Kant's view of the self and his contributions to our own understanding of the character (and limits) of self-knowledge. Salient aspects of Kant's positive theory of the self as it is presented in the Transcendental Deduction are discussed.

  8. In Kant and the demands of self-consciousness, Pierre Keller examines Kant’s theory of self-consciousness and argues that it succeeds in explaining how both subjective and objective experience are poss-ible. Previous interpretations of Kant’s theory have held that he treats all self-consciousness as knowledge of objective states of.

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