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Kant, the Philosophy of Mind, and Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy

Anil Gomes

Oxford Scholarship Online July 20, 2017 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198724957.003.0001 (opens in new tab)

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Topics Philosophy of mind
Key points The chapter provides background for essays on Kant and the philosophy of mind: it summarizes Kant's treatment of philosophy-of-mind issues in the Critical writings, charts the influence of that discussion on twentieth-century analytic philosophy of mind, particularly in the work of Wilfrid Sellars and P.F. Strawson, and identifies themes that characterize Kantian approaches in the philosophy of mind.

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This chapter provides a background to the essays in Kant and the Philosophy of Mind. In the first part of the chapter, some of the issues in the philosophy of mind which are addressed in Kant’s Critical writings are summarised. The second part charts some of the ways in which that discussion influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy of mind, with particular focus on the way in which Kant’s writings were taken up in the work of Wilfrid Sellars and P.F. Strawson. Finally, some of the themes which characterise Kantian approaches in the philosophy of mind are identified.

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