1 considered the founder of modern philosophy, was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, (which today is Kaliningrad in Russia) on April 22, 1724. He came from a Protestant family of Pietists. Kant attended the University of Königsberg and became an instructor at the university. For fifteen years he lectured and wrote on various topics in metaphysics, logic, natural sciences: physics, astronomy, ge...

cette approche se fonde sur la constatation préalable que l’explication de la règle juridique ne saurait être trouvée exclusivement dans le droit positif lui-même. le droit est un fait de langage, porteur des valeurs qui devraient être appréciées par rapport à une valeur transcendante, c’est-à- dire la dignité humaine. la théorie kantienne fait de cette dignité la norme idéale de la citoyenneté...

In a recent paper, Robert Hanna argues that Kant’s incongruent counterparts example can be mobilized to show that some mental representations, which represent complex states of affairs as complex, do so entirely non-conceptually. I will argue that Hanna is right to see that Kant uses incongruent counterparts to show that there must be a non-conceptual component to cognition, but goes too far in...

kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate god and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. but since kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. this article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

Predictive processing (PP) is a paradigm in computational and cognitive neuroscience that has recently attracted significant attention across domains, including psychology, robotics, artificial intelligence and philosophy. It is often regarded as a fresh and possibly revolutionary paradigm shift, yet a handful of authors have remarked that aspects of PP seem reminiscent of the work of 18th cent...

Article Reflexion, Gefühl, Identität in Anschluß an Kant/Reflection, Emotion, Identity. From Kant Onwards. Ed. by Ana Marta González and Alejandro G. Vigo. Berlin 2019, 130 p., ISBN 9783428157785. was published on September 30, 2022 the journal Kant-Studien (volume 113, issue 3).

the paper deals with kant's conception of moral judgment. i start by criticizing a dominant interpretation of kant's practical rationality in its assertion that choosing, i.e. exercising judgment consists in adopting a maxim; and adopting a maxim is equivalent to acting on a principle, giving oneself the moral law (korsgaard). according to this view, the logical inescapability of choo...

similar to other domains of inquiry and knowledge, social sciences are influenced by various philosophical views and different axioms about the creation and humanity. given that in social sciences human being is both the object and subject of inquiry and is the focal point of analysis, anthropological foundations become especially relevant for these sciences. considering that motahhari and kant...

1. Introduction Kant claims that human cognition involves the peculiar ability to " think the particular as contained under the universal. " We generalize: we abstract, classify, or conceptualize; we think of particular individual things as belonging to general kinds: this is a bird, that a tree. We form concepts into systematic hierarchies: grizzlies and polar bears are kinds of bear; bears an...