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The Nature of the ‘I Think’: Comments on Chapter 11 of Kant's Thinker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2014

Falk Wunderlich
Falk Wunderlich*
Affiliation:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Email: wunder@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
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Abstract

The article deals with Kant's theory of the self in Patricia Kitcher's Kant's Thinker in three respects: (1) I argue that it is doubtful whether accompanying representations with the ‘I think’ as such yields a principle for the categories since it does not require any strong kind of connection between them. (2) I discuss textual evidence for and against Kitcher's attempt to make sense of Kant's claim that the ‘I think’ requires the continued existence of cognizers per se. (3) I ask whether Kitcher's understanding of Kant's positive theory of the self leans towards minimal substantialism or towards functionalism.

Keywords

Immanuel KantPatricia Kitcher‘I think’Self
Type
Symposium on Patricia Kitcher's Kant's Thinker
Information
Kantian Review , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 143 - 148
Copyright
Copyright © Kantian Review 2014 

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