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Priestley and Kant on Materialism (2020)

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Kant maintains in the Critique of Pure Reason that both materialism and spiritualism cannot explain our existence. This paper argues that Kant’s relation to (psychological) materialism is more complex than this rejection suggests and is usually thought, and it evaluates this relation in a new and more positive light. The paper shows that Priestley anticipates some of Kant’s arguments against rationalist psychology, and that Kant’s rejection of materialism does not commit him to an immaterialist metaphysics of the soul. These arguments involve a discussion of the problem of the unity of consciousness and of notions such as simplicity and identity.

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Authors & Contributors
Wunderlich, Falk
Rumore, Paola
Wolfe, Charles T.
Gorkom, Joris van
Salatowsky, Sascha
Pecere, Paolo
Concepts
Materialism
Psychology
Philosophy
Metaphysics
Consciousness
Identity
Time Periods
18th century
Early modern
17th century
Modern
21st century
20th century
Places
Germany
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