diff --git a/src/content/posts/kant-view-of-mind-and-consciousness/index.md b/src/content/posts/kant-view-of-mind-and-consciousness/index.md index 580d84a3f..8de664001 100644 --- a/src/content/posts/kant-view-of-mind-and-consciousness/index.md +++ b/src/content/posts/kant-view-of-mind-and-consciousness/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self -published: 2024-07-24 +published: 2024-07-29 description: Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self image: './cover.png' tags: ["Theory"] @@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ Turning now to Kant's view of the mind, we will start with a point about method: entirely consistent views on the empirical study of the mind. The empirical method for doing psychology that Kant discussed was introspection. -Sometimes he held such study to be hopeless. The key text on psychology is in The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural -Science. There Kant tell us that “the empirical doctrine of the soul … must remain even further removed than chemistry +Sometimes he held such study to be hopeless. The key text on psychology is in **The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural +Science**. There Kant tell us that “the empirical doctrine of the soul … must remain even further removed than chemistry from the rank of what may be called a natural science proper”. (In Kant's defence, there was nothing resembling a single unified theory of chemical reactions in his time.) The contents of introspection, in his terms inner sense, cannot be studied scientifically for at least 5 reasons. @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ empirical study of the mind, given that he himself did it. He did so elsewhere. links 'self-observation' and observation of others and calls them both sources of anthropology Whatever, no kind of empirical psychology can yield necessary truths about the mind. In the light of this limitation, -how _should_ we study the mind? Kant's answer was: transcendental method using transcendental arguments (notions +how _should_ we study the mind? Kant's answer was: _transcendental method using transcendental arguments_ (notions introduced earlier). If we cannot observe the connections among the denizens of inner sense to any purpose, we can study what the mind _must_ be like and what capacities and structures (in Kant's jargon, faculties) it _must_ have if it is to represent things as it does. With this method we can find universally true, that is to say, 'transcendental' diff --git a/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/cover.png b/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/cover.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..688de2a8f Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/cover.png differ diff --git a/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/index.md b/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/index.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6c1e2d07f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/posts/reading-notes-critique-of-pure-reason/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: Critique of Pure Reason +published: 2024-07-27 +description: Reading Notes +image: './cover.png' +tags: ["Theory"] +category: 'Philosophy' +draft: false +--- + +Kant argues that our mathematical, physical, and quotidian knowledge of nature requires certain judgments that are +"synthetic" rather than "analytic," that is, going beyond what can be known solely in virtue of the contents of the +concepts involved in them and the application of the logical principles of identity and contradiction to these concepts, +and yet also knowable _a priori_, that is, independently of any particular experience since no particular experience +could ever be sufficient to establish the universal and necessary validity of these judgments. +