1st Edition

Transparency and Apperception Exploring the Kantian Roots of a Contemporary Debate

Edited By Boris Hennig, David Hunter, Thomas Land Copyright 2020
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Transparency and Apperception: Exploring the Kantian Roots of a Contemporary Debate explores the links between the idea that belief is transparent and Kant’s claims about apperception. Transparency is the idea that a person can answer questions about whether she, for instance, believes something by considering, not her own psychological states, but the objects and properties the belief... Read more

1. Assertion and transparent self-knowledge

Eric Marcus and John Schwenkler

2. Kant and the transparency of the mind

Alexandra M. Newton

3. The puzzle of transparency and how to solve it

Wolfgang Barz

4. Spontaneity and Self-Consciousness in the Groundwork and the B-Critique

Yoon Choi

5. ‘I do not cognize myself through being conscious of myself as thinking’: Self-knowledge and the irreducibility of self-objectification in Kant

Thomas Khurana

6. Kant’s "I think" and the agential approach to self-knowledge

Houston Smit

7. Transparency and reflection

Matthew Boyle

Biography

Boris Hennig, David Hunter and Thomas Land are faculty members in the Philosophy Department at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.