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Immanuel Kant is related to consciousness through his transcendental deduction, where unified experiences require self-consciousness [1], his argument that subjects must comprehend representations in a single consciousness [2], and his 1787 critique of associationist approaches to phenomenal consciousness [3].
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Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimP.F. Strawson, in his discussion of Immanuel Kant's transcendental deduction, articulates the claim that if different experiences are to belong to a single consciousness, the subject of those experiences must have the possibility of self-consciousness.
claimImmanuel Kant argues that a subject must be able to comprehend their manifold representations in a single consciousness to call them their own, otherwise the self would be as diverse as the representations themselves.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
perspectivevon Stillfried (2018) argues that David Chalmers' definition of consciousness is circular because, if experience is assumed to be the only intrinsic evidence, the causal structure of time-space cannot be differentiated from cognitive structures, a problem previously demonstrated by David Hume and Immanuel Kant.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
perspectiveImmanuel Kant critiqued the purely associationist approach to consciousness in 1787, arguing that an adequate account of experience and phenomenal consciousness requires a complex structure of mental and intentional organization.