From d5980f062b048ff4b7c940d82eeba50165988d8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:27:34 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add new blog post --- .../kant-view-of-mind-and-consciousness/index.md | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 4d2a760f3..a19fe45d7 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 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self published: 2024-07-24 -description: 'Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self' +description: Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self image: './cover.png' tags: ["Theory"] category: 'Theory' @@ -156,4 +156,12 @@ deductions. The objective deduction is about the conceptual and other cognitive objects. It is Kant's answer to the quid juris question. Exactly how the objective deduction goes is highly controversial, a controversy that we will sidestep here. The subjective deduction is about what the mind, the “subjective sources” of understanding, must as a consequence be like. The subjective deduction is what mainly interests -us. \ No newline at end of file +us. + +_Kant argues as follows. Our experiences have objects, that is, they are about something. The objects of our experiences +are discrete, unified particulars. To have such particulars available to it, the mind must construct them based on +sensible input. To construct them, the mind must do three kinds of synthesis. It must generate temporal and spatial +structure (Synthesis of Apprehension in Intuition). It must associate spatio-temporally structured items with other +spatio-temporally structured items (Synthesis of Reproduction in the Imagination). And it must recognize items using +concepts, the Categories in particular (Synthesis of Recognition in a Concept)_. This threefold doctrine of synthesis is +one of the cornerstones of Kant's model of the mind. We will consider it in more detail in the next Section.