Thomas Sturm
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Sturm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sturm |
| SIGNATURE | STURM T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5698-3542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
World-Concepts in Kant’s Anthropology: Their Meaning, Relations, and Roles
Kant often uses the term ‘world’ in compound nouns such as Weltkenntnis , Weltklugheit , Weltbürger , and Weltbegriff der Philosophie , among others. These concepts present a challenge to translators, and scholars tend to interpret them in isolation, ignoring their connections. Focusing on Kant’s novel project of a pragmatic anthropology, our case study reveals the distinct roles of the concepts of Weltkenntnis , Weltklugheit , Weltmann , and Wel…
The EU’s Fifth Freedom: Why and How to Develop the ‘Freedom of Knowledge’
The goal of a fifth EU freedom – the ‘freedom of knowledge’ – emerged from working towards a unified European research area, expanding upon the four basic freedoms of the Single Market. This additional freedom is not yet guaranteed and so this task should be taken up anew. Here, I support this goal by explicating the meaning of the ‘fifth freedom’, then justifying its importance via four arguments concerning scientific progress, freedom of resear…
Kant on the many uses of reason in the sciences: A neglected topic
The Force of an Idea: New Essays on Christian Wolff's Psychology
Kant on the Ends of the Sciences
Kant speaks repeatedly about the relations between ends or aims and scientific research, but the topic has mostly been ignored. What is the role of ends, especially (though not exclusively) practical ones, in his views on science? I will show that while Kant leaves ample space for recognizing a function of ends both in the definition and the pursuit of inquiry, and in the further practical application of scientific cognition, he does not claim th…
Formal versus Bounded Norms in the Psychology of Rationality: Toward a Multilevel Analysis of Their Relationship
It is often claimed that formal and optimizing norms of the standard conception of rationality and the heuristics of the bounded rationality approach are at odds with one another. This claim, I argue, is an overly complex one. In order to discuss it adequately, I introduce two sets of distinctions: (a) a system of different kinds of relations between conceptions of rationality, namely relations of elimination, compatibility, and complementarity, …
Reasoning one’s way through the Cold War (and beyond): Reply to Jamie Cohen-Cole and David Teira
‘Kant our Contemporary’? Kitcher on the Fruitfulness of Kant's Theory of the Cognitive Subject
In chapter 15 of Kant's Thinker , Patricia Kitcher claims that we can treat Kant as ‘our contemporary’, and that his theory of apperception ‘offers “new” and plausible perspectives on issues of considerable recent interest’. I question this with respect to two of her four chosen topics. First, I address her attempt to show that Kant's theory of apperceptive self-knowledge is immune to sceptical doubts of the sort Barry Stroud presents. Second, I …
Michael Friedman and the “marriage” of history and philosophy of science (and history of philosophy): Mary Domski and Michael Dickson (eds): Discourse on a new method:Reinvigorating the marriage of hi…
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
How (far) can rationality be naturalized
What’s philosophical about Kant’s philosophy of the human sciences
Bühler and Popper: Kantian therapies for the crisis in psychology
Crisis discussions in psychology—New historical and philosophical perspectives
Tools=Theories=Data? On Some Circular Dynamics in Cognitive Science
Algunos instrumentos han jugado un papel tan importante en la investigación psicológica que se han convertido en metáforas para el contenido mismo de la investigación, o han conducido a la generación de nuevos conceptos y teorías en psicología. Este capítulo pro-porciona dos casos prácticos relacionados que apoyan esta afirmación. Desde la llamada ―revolución cognitiva‖ de la década de 1960, la mente humana ha sido descrita teóricamen-te como un …
Kant and the scientific study of consciousness
We argue that Kant's views about consciousness, the mind-body problem and the status of psychology as a science all differ drastically from the way in which these topics are conjoined in present debates about the prominent idea of a science of consciousness. Kant never used the concept of consciousness in the now dominant sense of phenomenal qualia; his discussions of the mind-body problem center not on the reducibility of mental properties but o…
Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Kant behauptet, dass die Psychologie kaum eine genuine Naturwissenschaft werden kann, bezweifelt jedoch die Wissenschaftlichkeit seiner pragmatischen Anthropologie nicht - obwohl er in ihr das psychologische Vokabular zur Basis nimmt. Umgekehrt lehnt er Versuche, den Geist durch physiologische Zustände zu erklären, für seine Erforschung menschlichen Erkennens, Fühlens, Begehrens und Handelns ab, bestreitet aber nicht die Wissenschaftlichkeit ents…
Why did Kant reject physiological explanations in his anthropology
Is there a problem with mathematical psychology in the eighteenth century? A fresh look at Kant's old argument
Common opinion ascribes to Immanuel Kant the view that psychology cannot become a science properly so called, because it cannot be mathematized. It is equally common to claim that this reflects the state of the art of his times; that the quantification of the mind was not achieved during the eighteenth century, while it was so during the nineteenth century; or that Kant's so-called "impossibility claim" was refuted by nineteenth-century developme…
Roles of Instruments in Psychological Research
What roles have instruments played in psychology and related disciplines? How have instruments affected the dynamics of psychological research, with what possibilities and limits? What is the psychological instrument? This article provides a conceptual foundation for specific case studies concerning such questions. The discussion begins by challenging widely accepted assumptions about the subject and analyzing the general relations between scient…
Kant on Empirical Psychology: How Not to Investigate the Human Mind
This paper explains Kant’s views on the theory of matter as developed in the Dynamics chapter of his Metaphysical Foundations, and elaborates their background in the chemistry of the period. Kant’s general approach to matter theory unites Newtonian and Leibnizian motifs, and entails an intricate internal structure for matter involving a multiple overlap of material shells of different density. Kant’s chemical views derive from Stahlian chemistry …
How (far) can rationality be naturalized
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Is there a problem with mathematical psychology in the eighteenth century? A fresh look at Kant's old argument
Common opinion ascribes to Immanuel Kant the view that psychology cannot become a science properly so called, because it cannot be mathematized. It is equally common to claim that this reflects the state of the art of his times; that the quantification of the mind was not achieved during the eighteenth century, while it was so during the nineteenth century; or that Kant's so-called "impossibility claim" was refuted by nineteenth-century developme…
Roles of Instruments in Psychological Research
What roles have instruments played in psychology and related disciplines? How have instruments affected the dynamics of psychological research, with what possibilities and limits? What is the psychological instrument? This article provides a conceptual foundation for specific case studies concerning such questions. The discussion begins by challenging widely accepted assumptions about the subject and analyzing the general relations between scient…
Crisis discussions in psychology—New historical and philosophical perspectives
Kant on the Ends of the Sciences
Kant speaks repeatedly about the relations between ends or aims and scientific research, but the topic has mostly been ignored. What is the role of ends, especially (though not exclusively) practical ones, in his views on science? I will show that while Kant leaves ample space for recognizing a function of ends both in the definition and the pursuit of inquiry, and in the further practical application of scientific cognition, he does not claim th…
Formal versus Bounded Norms in the Psychology of Rationality: Toward a Multilevel Analysis of Their Relationship
It is often claimed that formal and optimizing norms of the standard conception of rationality and the heuristics of the bounded rationality approach are at odds with one another. This claim, I argue, is an overly complex one. In order to discuss it adequately, I introduce two sets of distinctions: (a) a system of different kinds of relations between conceptions of rationality, namely relations of elimination, compatibility, and complementarity, …
Kant and the scientific study of consciousness
We argue that Kant's views about consciousness, the mind-body problem and the status of psychology as a science all differ drastically from the way in which these topics are conjoined in present debates about the prominent idea of a science of consciousness. Kant never used the concept of consciousness in the now dominant sense of phenomenal qualia; his discussions of the mind-body problem center not on the reducibility of mental properties but o…
Why did Kant reject physiological explanations in his anthropology
Bühler and Popper: Kantian therapies for the crisis in psychology
Kant on Empirical Psychology: How Not to Investigate the Human Mind
This paper explains Kant’s views on the theory of matter as developed in the Dynamics chapter of his Metaphysical Foundations, and elaborates their background in the chemistry of the period. Kant’s general approach to matter theory unites Newtonian and Leibnizian motifs, and entails an intricate internal structure for matter involving a multiple overlap of material shells of different density. Kant’s chemical views derive from Stahlian chemistry …
Roles of Instruments in Psychological Research
What roles have instruments played in psychology and related disciplines? How have instruments affected the dynamics of psychological research, with what possibilities and limits? What is the psychological instrument? This article provides a conceptual foundation for specific case studies concerning such questions. The discussion begins by challenging widely accepted assumptions about the subject and analyzing the general relations between scient…
Is there a problem with mathematical psychology in the eighteenth century? A fresh look at Kant's old argument
Common opinion ascribes to Immanuel Kant the view that psychology cannot become a science properly so called, because it cannot be mathematized. It is equally common to claim that this reflects the state of the art of his times; that the quantification of the mind was not achieved during the eighteenth century, while it was so during the nineteenth century; or that Kant's so-called "impossibility claim" was refuted by nineteenth-century developme…
Why did Kant reject physiological explanations in his anthropology
Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Kant behauptet, dass die Psychologie kaum eine genuine Naturwissenschaft werden kann, bezweifelt jedoch die Wissenschaftlichkeit seiner pragmatischen Anthropologie nicht - obwohl er in ihr das psychologische Vokabular zur Basis nimmt. Umgekehrt lehnt er Versuche, den Geist durch physiologische Zustände zu erklären, für seine Erforschung menschlichen Erkennens, Fühlens, Begehrens und Handelns ab, bestreitet aber nicht die Wissenschaftlichkeit ents…
Kant and the scientific study of consciousness
We argue that Kant's views about consciousness, the mind-body problem and the status of psychology as a science all differ drastically from the way in which these topics are conjoined in present debates about the prominent idea of a science of consciousness. Kant never used the concept of consciousness in the now dominant sense of phenomenal qualia; his discussions of the mind-body problem center not on the reducibility of mental properties but o…
Bühler and Popper: Kantian therapies for the crisis in psychology
Crisis discussions in psychology—New historical and philosophical perspectives
Tools=Theories=Data? On Some Circular Dynamics in Cognitive Science
Algunos instrumentos han jugado un papel tan importante en la investigación psicológica que se han convertido en metáforas para el contenido mismo de la investigación, o han conducido a la generación de nuevos conceptos y teorías en psicología. Este capítulo pro-porciona dos casos prácticos relacionados que apoyan esta afirmación. Desde la llamada ―revolución cognitiva‖ de la década de 1960, la mente humana ha sido descrita teóricamen-te como un …
How (far) can rationality be naturalized
What’s philosophical about Kant’s philosophy of the human sciences
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
‘Kant our Contemporary’? Kitcher on the Fruitfulness of Kant's Theory of the Cognitive Subject
In chapter 15 of Kant's Thinker , Patricia Kitcher claims that we can treat Kant as ‘our contemporary’, and that his theory of apperception ‘offers “new” and plausible perspectives on issues of considerable recent interest’. I question this with respect to two of her four chosen topics. First, I address her attempt to show that Kant's theory of apperceptive self-knowledge is immune to sceptical doubts of the sort Barry Stroud presents. Second, I …
Michael Friedman and the “marriage” of history and philosophy of science (and history of philosophy): Mary Domski and Michael Dickson (eds): Discourse on a new method:Reinvigorating the marriage of hi…
Reasoning one’s way through the Cold War (and beyond): Reply to Jamie Cohen-Cole and David Teira
Formal versus Bounded Norms in the Psychology of Rationality: Toward a Multilevel Analysis of Their Relationship
It is often claimed that formal and optimizing norms of the standard conception of rationality and the heuristics of the bounded rationality approach are at odds with one another. This claim, I argue, is an overly complex one. In order to discuss it adequately, I introduce two sets of distinctions: (a) a system of different kinds of relations between conceptions of rationality, namely relations of elimination, compatibility, and complementarity, …
Kant on the Ends of the Sciences
Kant speaks repeatedly about the relations between ends or aims and scientific research, but the topic has mostly been ignored. What is the role of ends, especially (though not exclusively) practical ones, in his views on science? I will show that while Kant leaves ample space for recognizing a function of ends both in the definition and the pursuit of inquiry, and in the further practical application of scientific cognition, he does not claim th…
The Force of an Idea: New Essays on Christian Wolff's Psychology
The EU’s Fifth Freedom: Why and How to Develop the ‘Freedom of Knowledge’
The goal of a fifth EU freedom – the ‘freedom of knowledge’ – emerged from working towards a unified European research area, expanding upon the four basic freedoms of the Single Market. This additional freedom is not yet guaranteed and so this task should be taken up anew. Here, I support this goal by explicating the meaning of the ‘fifth freedom’, then justifying its importance via four arguments concerning scientific progress, freedom of resear…
Kant on the many uses of reason in the sciences: A neglected topic
World-Concepts in Kant’s Anthropology: Their Meaning, Relations, and Roles
Kant often uses the term ‘world’ in compound nouns such as Weltkenntnis , Weltklugheit , Weltbürger , and Weltbegriff der Philosophie , among others. These concepts present a challenge to translators, and scholars tend to interpret them in isolation, ignoring their connections. Focusing on Kant’s novel project of a pragmatic anthropology, our case study reveals the distinct roles of the concepts of Weltkenntnis , Weltklugheit , Weltmann , and Wel…
Epistemology (17 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (7 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Metaphysics (4 works)