As the pre-eminent
Enlightenment philosopher, Kant famously calls on all humans to make
up their own minds, independently from the constraints imposed on
them by others. Kant's focus, however, is on universal human reason,
and he tells us little about what makes us individual persons. In
this book, Katharina T. Kraus explores Kant's distinctive account of
psychological personhood by unfolding how, according to Kant, we come
to know ourselves as such persons. Drawing on Kant's Critical works
and on his Lectures and Reflections, Kraus develops the first
textually comprehensive and systematically coherent account of our
capacity for what Kant calls 'inner experience'. The novel view of
self-knowledge and self-formation in Kant that she offers addresses
present-day issues in philosophy of mind and will be relevant for
contemporary philosophical debates. It will be of interest to
scholars of the history of philosophy, as well as of philosophy of
mind and psychology.
