Nonpositional Consciousness and the Form of Thinking: Kant and Boyle on Self-Consciousness
Canadian Journal of Philosophy April 1, 2025 Claudi Brink
Abstract In Transparency and Reflection , Matthew Boyle offers a Sartrean account of prereflective self-awareness to explain the essential link between self-consciousness and rationality, moving away from standard Kantian interpretations that he claims presuppose rather than explain this connection. I argue that Boyle’s account provides useful tools for re-interpreting Kant’s claim that the “I...