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Katharina Kraus, Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021, xiii + 306 pp.

Katharina Kraus, Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience.... Readers have long been puzzled by Kant’s account of self-cognition. Almost all concepts he employs around this topic require considerable interpretational work. Key notions such as transcendental apperception and paralogisms have been intensively researched. However, inner experience or empirical self-cognition has been largely neglected. Kraus’s book, Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience, is probably the most comprehensive research on this topic and undoubtably represents the latest state of the debate: it surveys almost all crucial English and German studies to date and covers almost all relevant aspects. Her project places interpretative questions into their larger context: how can thinking subjects succeed in cognizing themselves as empirically given objects, or how can we refer to ourselves in empirical self-knowledge? She gives a clear, systematic and novel reconstruction of Kant’s answer to this question. Kraus’s elaboration of her proposal is extremely rich, both exegetically and philosophically. This is an admirable achievement and the chief virtue of her book.She answers the leading question with two core interpretative claims. First, she develops a novel account of the object of inner experience by defending a nuanced parity view: on par with physical phenomena, psychological phenomena (mental states or properties) can http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie de Gruyter

Katharina Kraus, Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021, xiii + 306 pp.

Liang, Yibin
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie , Volume 105 (2): 6 – Jun 30, 2023
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10.1515/agph-2022-0002
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Readers have long been puzzled by Kant’s account of self-cognition. Almost all concepts he employs around this topic require considerable interpretational work. Key notions such as transcendental apperception and paralogisms have been intensively researched. However, inner experience or empirical self-cognition has been largely neglected. Kraus’s book, Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience, is probably the most comprehensive research on this topic and undoubtably represents the latest state of the debate: it surveys almost all crucial English and German studies to date and covers almost all relevant aspects. Her project places interpretative questions into their larger context: how can thinking subjects succeed in cognizing themselves as empirically given objects, or how can we refer to ourselves in empirical self-knowledge? She gives a clear, systematic and novel reconstruction of Kant’s answer to this question. Kraus’s elaboration of her proposal is extremely rich, both exegetically and philosophically. This is an admirable achievement and the chief virtue of her book.She answers the leading question with two core interpretative claims. First, she develops a novel account of the object of inner experience by defending a nuanced parity view: on par with physical phenomena, psychological phenomena (mental states or properties) can

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Published: Jun 30, 2023

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