Kant S Empirical Psychology

Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107032651

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Kant's Empirical Psychology by Patrick R. Frierson Pdf

"Throughout his life, Kant was concerned with questions about empirical psychology. He aimed to develop an empirical account of human beings, and his lectures and writings on the topic are recognizable today as properly 'psychological' treatments of human thought and behaviour. In this book Patrick R. Frierson uses close analysis of relevant texts, including unpublished lectures and notes, to study Kant's account. He shows in detail how Kant explains human action, choice, and thought in empirical terms, and how a better understanding of Kant's psychology can shed light on major concepts in his philosophy, including the moral law, moral responsibility, weakness of will, and cognitive error. Frierson also applies Kant's accounts of mental illness to contemporary philosophical issues. His book will interest students and scholars of Kant, the history of psychology, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of action"--

Author : Patricia Kitcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 9780195085631

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Kant's Transcendental Psychology by Patricia Kitcher Pdf

For the last 100 years historians have denigrated the psychology of the Critique of Pure Reason. In opposition, Patricia Kitcher argues that we can only understand the deduction of the categories in terms of Kant's attempt to fathom the psychological prerequisites of thought, and that this investigation illuminates thinking itself. Kant tried to understand the "task environment" of knowledge and thought: Given the data we acquire and the scientific generalizations we make, what basic cognitive capacities are necessary to perform these feats? What do these capacities imply about the inevitable structure of our knowledge? 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 them to have content; the relations between perceptions and judgment; the malleability essential to empirical concepts; the structure of empirical concepts required for inductive inference; and the limits of philosophical insight into psychological processes.

Author : Edward Franklin Buchner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Psychology
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6PX5

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A Study of Kant's Psychology with Reference to the Critical Philosophy by Edward Franklin Buchner Pdf

Author : Avery Goldman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253005403

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Kant and the Subject of Critique by Avery Goldman Pdf

Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves. Kant may seem to begin his inquiries with an uncritical conception of cognitive limits, but in Kant and the Subject of Critique, Avery Goldman argues that, even for Kant, a reflective act must take place before any judgment occurs. Building on Kant's metaphysics, which uses the soul, the world, and God as regulative principles, Goldman demonstrates how Kant can open doors to reflection, analysis, language, sensibility, and understanding. By establishing a regulative self, Goldman offers a way to bring unity to the subject through Kant's seemingly circular reasoning, allowing for critique and, ultimately, knowledge.

Author : Patricia Kitcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198022596

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Kant's Transcendental Psychology by Patricia Kitcher Pdf

For the last 100 years historians have denigrated the psychology of the Critique of Pure Reason. In opposition, Patricia Kitcher argues that we can only understand the deduction of the categories in terms of Kant's attempt to fathom the psychological prerequisites of thought, and that this investigation illuminates thinking itself. Kant tried to understand the "task environment" of knowledge and thought: Given the data we acquire and the scientific generalizations we make, what basic cognitive capacities are necessary to perform these feats? What do these capacities imply about the inevitable structure of our knowledge? 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 them to have content; the relations between perceptions and judgment; the malleability essential to empirical concepts; the structure of empirical concepts required for inductive inference; and the limits of philosophical insight into psychological processes.

Author : Thomas Teo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780387253565

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The Critique of Psychology by Thomas Teo Pdf

Closely paralleling the history of psychology is the history of its critics, their theories, and their contributions. The Critique of Psychology is the first book to trace this alternate history, from a unique perspective that complements the many existing empirical, theoretical, and social histories of the field. Thomas Teo cogently synthesizes major historical and theoretical narratives to describe two centuries of challenges to—and the reactions of—the mainstream. Some of these critiques of content, methodology, relevance, and philosophical worldview have actually influenced and become integrated into the canon; others pose moral questions still under debate. All are accessibly presented so that readers may judge their value for themselves: - Kant’s critique of rational and empirical psychology at the end of the 18th century - The natural-scientific critique of philosophical psychology in the 19th century - The human-scientific critique of natural-scientific psychology - The Marxist traditions of critique - Feminist and postmodern critiques and the contemporary mainstream - Postcolonial critiques and the shift from cross-cultural to multicultural psychology This is not a book of critique for critique’s sake: Teo defines the field as a work in progress with goals that are evolving yet constant. In emphasizing ethical and political questions faced by psychology as a discipline, this visionary book points students, academics, and practitioners toward new possibilities for their shared future.

Author : Corey Dyck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199688296

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Kant and Rational Psychology by Corey Dyck Pdf

Corey W. Dyck presents a new account of Kant's criticism of the rational investigation of the soul in the 'Critique of Pure Reason', in light of its 18th-century German context. He reinterprets the aims and results of the Paralogisms, and illuminates Kant's discussion of the soul's substantiality, simplicity, personality, and existence.

Author : Alix Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024915

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Kant's Lectures on Anthropology by Alix Cohen Pdf

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.

Author : Richard McCarty
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191609961

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Kant's Theory of Action by Richard McCarty Pdf

The theory of action underlying Immanuel Kant's ethical theory is the subject of this book. What 'maxims' are, and how we act on maxims, are explained here in light of both the historical context of Kant's thought, and his classroom lectures on psychology and ethics. Arguing against the current of much recent scholarship, Richard McCarty makes a strong case for interpreting Kant as having embraced psychological determinism, a version of the 'belief-desire model' of human motivation, and a literal, 'two-worlds' metaphysics. On this interpretation, actions in the sensible world are always effects of prior psychological causes. Their explaining causal laws are the maxims of agents' characters. And agents act freely if, acting also in an intelligible world, what they do there results in their having the characters they have here, in the sensible world. McCarty additionally shows how this interpretation is fruitful for solving familiar problems perennially plaguing Kant's moral psychology.

Author : Corey W. Dyck
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191512629

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Kant and Rational Psychology by Corey W. Dyck Pdf

Corey W. Dyck presents a new account of Kant's criticism of the rational investigation of the soul in his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, in light of its eighteenth-century German context. When characterizing the rational psychology that is Kant's target in the Paralogisms of Pure Reason chapter of the Critique commentators typically only refer to an approach to, and an account of, the soul found principally in the thought of Descartes and Leibniz. But Dyck argues that to do so is to overlook the distinctive rational psychology developed by Christian Wolff, which emphasized the empirical foundation of any rational cognition of the soul, and which was widely influential among eighteenth-century German philosophers, including Kant. In this book, Dyck reveals how the received conception of the aim and results of Kant's Paralogisms must be revised in light of a proper understanding of the rational psychology that is the most proximate target of Kant's attack. In particular, he contends that Kant's criticism hinges upon exposing the illusory basis of the rational psychologist's claims inasmuch as he falls prey to the appearance of the soul as being given in inner experience. Moreover, Dyck demonstrates that significant light can be shed on Kant's discussion of the soul's substantiality, simplicity, personality, and existence by considering the Paralogisms in this historical context.

Author : Kelly Sorensen,Diane Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107178229

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Kant and the Faculty of Feeling by Kelly Sorensen,Diane Williamson Pdf

First essay collection devoted to Kant's faculty of feeling, a concept relevant to issues in ethics, aesthetics, and the emotions.

Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415558440

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What is the Human Being? by Patrick R. Frierson Pdf

Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant's philosophy of human nature - which is essential for understanding his thought as a whole - Patrick Frierson assesses Kant's theories and examines his critics.

Author : Katharina T. Kraus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108836647

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Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation by Katharina T. Kraus Pdf

Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant's account of personhood.

Author : Holly L. Wilson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791481295

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Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology by Holly L. Wilson Pdf

The first comprehensive examination in English of Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View.

Author : Patricia Kitcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199754823

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Kant's Thinker by Patricia Kitcher Pdf

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.