The cognitive binding problem is a central question in the study of consciousness: how does the brain synthesize its modal and submodal processing systems to generate a unity of conscious experience? This essay considers several solutions to the binding problem, as well as their shortcomings. In particular, the current theory of neural synchronization as the basis for binding and consciousness ...

This paper claims that the inner drive of discussion leading to philosophical rupture between Fichte and Schelling is problem independence nature. I argue otherwise rich literature on subject, by not engaging with this problem, has led a false dichotomy two equally unsatisfactory possibilities interpretation: (a) Schelling’s misunderstanding Kant’s transcendental method or (b) his overcoming it...

This essay explores the practical significance of Michel Henry's "material phenomenology." Commencing with an exposition of his most basic philosophical intuition, i.e., his insight that transcendental affectivity is the primordial mode of revelation of our selfhood, the essay then brings to light how this intuition also establishes our relation to both the world and others. Animated by a radic...

In 1789 Salomon Maimon sent Kant, via Markus Herz, the manuscript of his Essay on Transcendental Philosophy (Kant, 1999, pp. 291-294). A surprised Kant replied to Herz: “None my critics understood me as well Herr does” 311-315). Kant’s praise makes him a singular figure in Haskalah , Jewish Enlightenment. But while theoretical aspect Maimon’s criticism has received increasing attention recent y...

The idea inspiring the eco-phenomenological movement is that phenomenology can help remedy our environmental crisis by uprooting and replacing environmentallydestructive ethical and metaphysical presuppositions inherited from modern philosophy. Eco-phenomenology’s critiques of subject/object dualism and the fact/value divide are sketched and its positive alternatives examined. Two competing app...

This paper presents an elucidation of Kant’s notion judgment, which clearly is a central challenge to the understanding Critic Pure Reason, as well Transcendental Idealism. In contrast contemporary interpretation, but taking it starting point, following theses will be endorsed here: i) synthesis judgment expresses conceptual relation understood subordination in traditional Aristotelian logical ...

Abstract It is not just rationalist metaphysics, but also Kant’s transcendental philosophy that teeming with a priori concepts. According to Kant, some of these concepts are “ideas,” and similar the categories, ideas in turn belong nature human reason, while others can be derived from them. therefore part claim “Transcendental Dialectic” able explain only leading rational psychology, cosmology,...