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1 online resource (227 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy |
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Routledge studies in eighteenth century philosophy
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Key to Abbreviations of Kantian Works; Acknowledgements; A Brief Introduction; 1 Self-Knowledge and Self-Consciousness; The Problems of Self-Knowledge; The Question of Self-Consciousness; Indexicality; Immunity to Error Through Misidentification; Kant's Theory of the Mind: Faculties and Representations; The Inner Sense; An Introspective Account of Self-Consciousness; The Inner Sense and the Ideality of Time; The Epistemic Limits of the Inner Sense; The Transcendental Deduction and the Principle of the Unity of Apperception |
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The Metaphysical DeductionThe Transcendental Deduction; I Think and the Principle of the Necessary Synthetic Unity of Apperception; 2 Two Senses of 'I think'; The Synthetic Unity of Apperception and the I Think; Transcendental Dialectic: The I Think and the Analysis of the Paralogisms; The Analysis of the Paralogisms; I as a Concept; The 'I Exist Thinking': The Empirical Apperception; Thinking Is Being; The Concept of a 'Transcendental Subject'; I think qua Thinking and I think qua Representation; 3 The Problem of Self-identification; 'I think' and the Question of Self-Identification |
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The Genesis of the Cartesian SelfTwo No-Ownership Readings and One Thesis of Exclusion; The I of Pure Apperception and the I as Subject; The I of Empirical Apperception; 4 The Simple Representation I and the Transcendental Designation; I Think and the Direct Reference Theory; Kant Between Conceptualism and Non-Conceptualism: Concepts and Intuitions; Intuition as an Indexical Representation; The Logical Form of Singular Judgments; The Dismissal of the Lowest Species; The Conceptualist Form of Singular Terms; The Role of Designation in Natural Kind Terms |
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Kripke and Putnam on the Theory of Direct ReferenceKant and the A Priori Nature of the Judgment "Gold Is a Yellow Metal"; The Relationship of Term, Concept, and Natural Substance; The Semantic Reflection in the Logical Corpus; The Role of Designation; The Simple Representation 'I' and the Role of Transcendental Designation; 5 On de se and de re; Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description: The Weak Conceptualist View; The Theory of the Transcendental Object; Non-Conceptualism Versus Weak Conceptualism; "The Object Must Be Thought of Only as Something in General = x." |
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De se Thoughts Between Descriptivism and SingularismKant on de se; I Think and de se Thoughts; I as Form of Thinking; The Paradox of Self-Consciousness and the Non-Conceptual Forms of Self-Awareness; The Problem of Self-Knowledge; The Dualism of the I of Apperception and the I as Human Being; Longuenesse and Ginsborg on the I Considered as Human Being; Capozzi and the Role of Attention in the Inner Sense; A Brief Conclusion; References; Index |
| Summary |
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' |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Luca Forgione is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Language and in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Basilicata, Italy |
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 fast |
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Self-knowledge, Theory of.
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Self-knowledge, Theory of
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429762956 |
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042976295X |
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9780429762949 |
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0429762941 |
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9780429762932 |
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0429762933 |
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9780429427091 |
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0429427093 |
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