Kant on Empirical Self-Consciousness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8084757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janum Sethi (0000-0002-6396-1541, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-99 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australasian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8402 • E-ISSN: 1470-6828 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00048402.2021.1948083 |
| OpenAlex | W3183595954 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 44 |
Kant is said to be the first to distinguish between consciousness of oneself as the subject of one’s experiences and consciousness of oneself as an object, which he calls transcendental and empirical apperception, respectively. Of these, it is empirical apperception that is meant to enable consciousness of any empirical features of oneself; what this amounts to, however, continues to puzzle interpreters. I argue that a key to understanding what empirical apperception consists in is Kant’s claim that each type of apperception corresponds to a distinct type of unity of apperception—that is, a distinct way in which representations can be related for a subject. Whereas transcendental unity of apperception requires that representations be actively combined by the understanding, empirical unity of apperception obtains when representations are passively combined by the reproductive imagination. In light of this, I develop a novel account of Kant’s two types of apperception, according to which they correspond to a cognitive subject’s consciousness of two essential aspects of herself—namely, her spontaneity and receptivity
Apperception · Consciousness · Empirical research · Epistemology · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Psychoanalysis · Self · Self-consciousness · Subject (documents · Transcendental number · Computer Science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Philosophy
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A Treatise of Human Nature
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Kant and the Mind
Empirical Consciousness Explained
Kant and the Capacity to Judge
Kant and the scientific study of consciousness
Kant on the place of cognition in the progression of our representations
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Two Kinds of Self‐Knowledge
"Kant on the Impossibility of the "Soft Sciences
Kant's Theory of Mental Activity
Kant’s Transcendental Deduction
Two Kinds of Unity in the Critique of Pure Reason
Kant and the philosophy of mind
Kant‘s Transcendental Psychology
The Bounds of Sense
Kant on the Unity of Space and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception
On the Transcendental Freedom of the Intellect
Spontaneity and Self-Consciousness in the Groundwork and the B- Critique
Kant’s Thinker
Kant's Theory of Mind
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |