Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism

Dennis Schulting is an independent scholar and the former Assistant Professor of Metaphysics and the History of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the founding editor and manager of the online journal Critique and has published numerous books including The Bloomsbury Companion to Kant (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Preface

1. Introduction: Ineliminably Reflexive Human Experience
2. The ‘Self-Knowledge’ of Reason: Kant’s Copernican Hypothesis
3. ‘A representation of my representations’: Apperception and the Leibnizian-Wolffian Background
4. Apperception, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Knowledge in Kant
5. Reflexivity, Intentionality, and Animal Perception
6. Disciple or Renegade? On Reinhold’s Representationalism, the Principle of Consciousness, and the Thing in Itself
7. Apperception and Representational Content: Fichte, Hegel, and Pippin
8. On the Kinship of Kant’s and Hegel’s Metaphysical Logics
9. Hegel, Transcendental Philosophy, and the Myth of Realism

Notes
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Index