Conceptual issues on Kant’s theory of inner experience

This paper discusses the use of certain terms associated to I. Kant’s account of inner experience. Inner experience is a subject matter relevant in Kant’s thought, which encompasses metaphysical and anthropological issues worthy of consideration. By examining the Critique of Pure Reason and the Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view, one can see the confused use of the terms: inner sense, empirical, pure, and transcendental apperception, discursive and intuitive self-consciousness, consciousness of oneself divided into reflection and apprehension, intellectual and empirical consciousness of one’s existence. Therefore, I focus on the philosophical meaning of the previous terms and their relation to the problem of inner experience, which depends upon the outer experience. Finally, I deal with the problem of the content of inner sense, suggesting that its content does not correspond to a single, simple thing, but rather to a flux of inner representations.

• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Industrial de Santander
• Repositorio: Repositorio UIS
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:noesis.uis.edu.co:20.500.14071/10894
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistafilosofiauis/article/view/9866; https://noesis.uis.edu.co/handle/20.500.14071/10894
• Palabra clave: sentido interno; apercepción; autoconciencia; yo; psicología; inner sense; apperception; self-consciousness; self; anthropology
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)