A Kantian Solution to the Problem of Reflection
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences January 30, 2026 Konstantinos Morfis, Anthony Hatzimoysis
Abstract This paper examines the link between Immanuel Kant’s notion of transcendental self-consciousness and Dan Zahavi’s notion of pre-reflective self-consciousness in order to address the problem of reflection. Zahavi emphasizes the identity in pre-reflective self-consciousness, according to which the subject is conscious of itself as the one undergoing an experience, that is the...