Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness

ISBN-13: 9780521004695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 296 str.

Pierre Keller

Opis

Pierre Keller examines Kant's theory of self-consciousness and argues that it succeeds in explaining how both subjective and objective experience are possible. He argues for a new understanding of Kant's conception of self-consciousness as the capacity to abstract not only from what one happens to be experiencing, but also from one's own personal identity. By developing this new interpretation he is able to argue that transcendental self-consciousness underwrites a general theory of objectivity and subjectivity at the same time.

Recenzje

"Keller (Univ. of California, Riverside) offers an original reading of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason that combines thematic focus and comprehensive scope." Choice

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Introducing apperception; 3. Concepts, laws, and the recognition of objects; 4. Self-consciousness and the demands of judgement in the B-deduction; 5. Self-consciousness and the unity of intuition: completing the B-deduction; 6. Time-consciousness in the analogies; 7. Causal laws; 8. Self-consciousness and the pseudo-discipline of transcendental psychology; 9. How independent is the self from the body?; 10. The argument against idealism; 11. Empirical realism and transcendental idealism; Conclusion.