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Author : Katharina T. Kraus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108836647
Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant's account of personhood.
Author : Luca Forgione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429762949
This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kant’s philosophy. As Kant writes in his major works of the critical period, it is due to the simple and empty representation ‘I think’ that the subject’s capacity for self-consciousness enables the subject to represent its own mental dimension. This book articulates Kant’s theory of self-knowledge on the basis of the following three philosophical problems: 1) a semantic problem regarding the type of reference of the representation ‘I’; 2) an epistemic problem regarding the type of knowledge relative to the thinking subject produced by the representation ‘I think’; and 3) a strictly metaphysical problem regarding the features assigned to the thinking subject’s nature. The author connects the relevant scholarly literature on Kant with contemporary debates on the huge philosophical field of self-knowledge. He develops a formal reading according to which the unity of self-consciousness does not presuppose the identity of a real subject, but a formal identity based on the representation ‘I think’.
Author : Pierre Keller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521004691
This study offers a striking new interpretation of Kant's theory of self-consciousness.
Author : Alberto Coffa,J. Alberto Coffa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521447070
J. Albert Coffa traces the roots of logical positivism in a semantic tradition that arose in opposition to Kant's theory that a priori knowledge is based on pure intuition.
Author : Andrew Brook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521574412
A comprehensive overview of Kant's discoveries about the mind for non-specialists.
Author : Béatrice Longuenesse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139447591
In this collection of essays Béatrice Longuenesse considers the three aspects of Kant's philosophy, his epistemology and metaphysics of nature, his moral philosophy and his aesthetic theory, under one unifying standpoint: Kant's conception of our capacity to form judgements. She argues that the elements which make up our cognitive access to the world - what Kant calls the 'human point of view' - have an equally important role to play in our moral evaluations and our aesthetic judgements. Her discussion ranges over Kant's account of our representations of space and time, his conception of the logical forms of judgements, sufficient reason, causality, community, God, freedom, morality, and beauty in nature and art. Her book will appeal to all who are interested in Kant and his thought.
Author : Rebecca Kukla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139455169
This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The essays, written specially for this volume, explore core elements of Kant's epistemology, such as his notions of discursive understanding, experience, and objective judgment. They also demonstrate a rich grasp of Kant's critical epistemology that enables a deeper understanding of his aesthetics. Collectively, the essays reveal that Kant's critical project, and the dialectics of aesthetics and cognition within it, is still relevant to contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the nature of experience and objectivity. The book also yields important lessons about the ineliminable, yet problematic place of imagination, sensibility and aesthetic experience in perception and cognition.
Author : Lea Ypi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191065422
The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Taken together these questions converge on a fourth one, which is at the centre of philosophy as a whole: what is the human being? Lea Ypi suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its purposive character. By focusing on the sources, evolution and function of Kant's concept of purposiveness, this book shows that the idea of purposiveness that Kant endorses in the Critique of Pure Reason is a concept of purposiveness as intelligent design, quite different from the concept of purposiveness as normativity that will become central to his later works. In the case of purposiveness as design, the relationship between reason and nature is anchored to the idea of God. In the case of purposiveness as normativity, it is anchored to the concept of reflexive judgment, and grounded on transcendental freedom. Understanding this shift has important implications for some of the most difficult questions that confront the Kantian system: the passage from the system of nature to that of freedom, the relation between faith and knowledge, the philosophical defence of progress in history, and the role of religion. It is also crucial to shed light on the way in which Kant's critique has shaped the successive German philosophical tradition.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139827034
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion to Kant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particular focus on his moral and political philosophy. It also provides detailed coverage of Kant's historical context and of the enormous impact and influence that his work has had on the subsequent history of philosophy. The bibliography also offers extensive and organized coverage of both classical and recent books on Kant. This volume thus provides the broadest and deepest introduction currently available on Kant and his place in modern philosophy, making accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to those coming to his work for the first time.
Author : Richard Moran
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400842971
Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive relation to his or her own mental life, let alone a privileged one. In Authority and Estrangement, Richard Moran argues for a reconception of the first-person and its claims. Indeed, he writes, a more thorough repudiation of the idea of privileged inner observation leads to a deeper appreciation of the systematic differences between self-knowledge and the knowledge of others, differences that are both irreducible and constitutive of the very concept and life of the person. Masterfully blending philosophy of mind and moral psychology, Moran develops a view of self-knowledge that concentrates on the self as agent rather than spectator. He argues that while each person does speak for his own thought and feeling with a distinctive authority, that very authority is tied just as much to the disprivileging of the first-person, to its specific possibilities of alienation. Drawing on certain themes from Wittgenstein, Sartre, and others, the book explores the extent to which what we say about ourselves is a matter of discovery or of creation, the difficulties and limitations in being ''objective'' toward ourselves, and the conflicting demands of realism about oneself and responsibility for oneself. What emerges is a strikingly original and psychologically nuanced exploration of the contrasting ideals of relations to oneself and relations to others.
Author : Garth Green
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004186750
This work identifies Kant’s doctrine of inner sense as a central element within the ‘architectonic of pure reason’ of the first Critique, exposes its variant construals, and considers the implications of its problematicity for Kant’s theoretical philosophy most generally.
Author : Allen W. Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015008811989
Author : Patricia Kitcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199754823
Kant's Thinker examines the Critique of Pure Reason's account of the relation between cognition and self-consciousness. It shows how the theory that cognizers must understand their mental states as standing in relations of rational connection has implications for theories of the self-ascription of belief, consciousness and knowledge of other subjects.
Author : Emre Kazim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004340664
In Kant on Conscience Emre Kazim offers the first systematic treatment of Kant’s theory of conscience. Contrary to the scholarly consensus, Kazim argues that Kant’s various discussions of conscience are philosophically coherent aspects of the same unified thing (‘Unity Thesis’).
Author : Robert B. Pippin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400836949
In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to Kant's philosophy and demonstrating their continued relevance for contemporary thought. As Robert Pippin shows, Hegel argues that we must understand Kant's account of the self-conscious nature of consciousness as a claim in practical philosophy, and that therefore we need radically different views of human sentience, the conditions of our knowledge of the world, and the social nature of subjectivity and normativity. Pippin explains why this chapter of Hegel's Phenomenology should be seen as the basis of much later continental philosophy and the Marxist, neo-Marxist, and critical-theory traditions. He also contrasts his own interpretation of Hegel's assertions with influential interpretations of the chapter put forward by philosophers John McDowell and Robert Brandom.