Kant and the Problem of Self-Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kant and the Problem of Self-Knowledge write by Luca Forgione. This book was released on 2018-10-17. Kant and the Problem of Self-Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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’.
Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation write by Katharina T. Kraus. This book was released on 2020-12-03. Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant's account of personhood.
Knowledge, Reason, and Taste
Knowledge, Reason, and Taste - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowledge, Reason, and Taste write by Paul Guyer. This book was released on 2013-12-08. Knowledge, Reason, and Taste available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.
Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation write by Katharina T. Kraus. This book was released on 2020-12-03. Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 on his Lectures and Reflections, Kraus develops the first textually comprehensive and systematically coherent account of our capacity for what Kant calls 'inner experience'. The novel view of self-knowledge and self-formation in Kant that she offers addresses present-day issues in philosophy of mind and will be relevant for contemporary philosophical debates. It will be of interest to scholars of the history of philosophy, as well as of philosophy of mind and psychology.
Kant's Thinker
Kant's Thinker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kant's Thinker write by Patricia Kitcher. This book was released on 2011-01-07. Kant's Thinker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kant's discussion of the relations between cognition and self-consciousness lie at the heart of the Critique of Pure Reason , in the celebrated transcendental deduction. Although this section of Kant's masterpiece is widely believed to contain important insights into cognition and self-consciousness, it has long been viewed as unusually obscure. Many philosophers have tried to avoid the transcendental psychology that Kant employed. By contrast, Patricia Kitcher follows Kant's careful delineation of the necessary conditions for knowledge and his intricate argument that knowledge requires self-consciousness. She argues that far from being an exercise in armchair psychology, the thesis that thinkers must be aware of the connections among their mental states offers an astute analysis of the requirements of rational thought.The book opens by situating Kant's theories in the then contemporary debates about 'apperception,' personal identity and the relations between object cognition and self-consciousness. After laying out Kant's argument that the distinctive kind of knowledge that humans have requires a unified self- consciousness, Kitcher considers the implications of his theory for current problems in the philosophy of mind. If Kant is right that rational cognition requires acts of thought that are at least implicitly conscious, then theories of consciousness face a second 'hard problem' beyond the familiar difficulties with the qualities of sensations. How is conscious reasoning to be understood? Kitcher shows that current accounts of the self-ascription of belief have great trouble in explaining the case where subjects know their reasons for the belief. She presents a 'new' Kantian approach to handling this problem. In this way, the book reveals Kant as a thinker of great relevance to contemporary philosophy, one whose allegedly obscure achievements provide solutions to problems that are still with us.
