dc.contributor.advisor | Merrill, Kenneth R., | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Yalcin, Sahabeddin. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-16T12:18:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-16T12:18:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11244/386 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this dissertation I attempt to show that Immanuel Kant's allegedly unified theory of knowledge faces the possibility of being undermined due to certain fatal problems with his theory of self-knowledge. In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant presents a theory of knowledge according to which self-knowledge is subject to the same transcendental conditions (pure or a priori concepts and principles) as knowledge of objects other than the self. Kant's unified perspective on knowledge depends upon a strict parallelism between outer sense and inner sense as set forth in the 'Transcendental Aesthetic' section of the Critique of Pure Reason. As I try to show in the dissertation, however, Kant's unified theory of knowledge is seriously damaged by certain critical problems with his doctrine of self-knowledge in general, and his account of inner sense in particular. Kant fails to provide a satisfactory explanation of the manifold of inner intuition as a source of the sensible material for the thought of inner objects. Although his strict parallelism thesis between outer sense and inner sense requires inner intuition to have a distinct manifold of its own (different from the manifold of outer intuition) Kant's theory of self-knowledge does not provide a distinctively inner manifold. Hence I conclude that Kant's supposedly unified perspective on knowledge is undermined because of his inability to meet his parallelism requirements between outer sense and inner sense. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | vii, 160 leaves ; | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy. | en_US |
dc.subject | Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. | en_US |
dc.subject | Self-knowledge, Theory of. | en_US |
dc.title | Kant and the paradox of self-knowledge. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.thesis.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Department of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.note | Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-10, Section: A, page: 3427. | en_US |
dc.note | Adviser: Kenneth R. Merrill. | en_US |
ou.identifier | (UMI)AAI3029613 | en_US |
ou.group | College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Philosophy | |