Kant and the Problem of Self-Knowledge

Kant and the Problem of Self-Knowledge

Taylor & Francis

This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kant\u2019s philosophy. As Kant writes in his major works of the critical period, it is due to the simple and empty representation \u2018I think\u2019 that the subject\u2019s capacity for self-consciousness enables the subject to represent its own mental dimension. This book articulates Kant\u2019s theory of self-knowledge on the basis of the following three philosophical problems: 1) a semantic problem regarding the type of reference of the representation \u2018I\u2019; 2) an epistemic problem regarding the type of knowledge relative to the thinking subject produced by the representation \u2018I think\u2019; and 3) a strictly metaphysical problem regarding the features assigned to the thinking subject\u2019s nature. The author connects the relevant scholarly literature on Kant with contemporary debates on the huge philosophical field of self-knowledge. He develops a formal reading according to which the unity of self-consciousness.

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