@article{7470b924d3d44aebbe5eaaf269a874b7,
title = "Kant and the transparency of the mind",
abstract = "It has become standard to treat Kant{\textquoteright}s characterization of pure apperception as involving the claim that questions about what I think are transparent to questions about the world. By contrast, empirical apperception is thought to be non-transparent, since it involves a kind of inner observation of my mental states. I propose a reading that reverses this: pure apperception is non-transparent, because conscious only of itself, whereas empirical apperception is transparent to the world. The reading I offer, unlike the standard one, can accommodate Kant{\textquoteright}s claim that the I of pure apperception is the same as the I of empirical apperception.",
keywords = "Evans, Kant, Sartre, Self-consciousness, apperception, transparency",
author = "Newton, {Alexandra M.}",
note = "Funding Information: I have presented previous versions of this paper at three events. The first was a conference on Introspection, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Knowledge at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in May 2015. The second was a conference on Transparency and Self-Consciousness at Ryerson University in Toronto in May 2018. And the third was a colloquium talk at the University of Leipzig, Germany in June 2018. Thanks to all the audiences at these events for their challenging questions and astute comments. Special thanks to Irad Kimhi, Sebastian R?dl, Matthew Boyle, Adrian Haddock, David Sussman, and Stephen Engstrom for helpful conversations directly related to the topic of this paper. I also thank two anonymous reviewers for their extensive and detailed comments, many of which led me to rewrite the latter half of this paper. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, {\textcopyright} 2019 Canadian Journal of Philosophy.",
year = "2019",
month = oct,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1080/00455091.2019.1565613",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "49",
pages = "890--915",
journal = "Canadian Journal of Philosophy",
issn = "0045-5091",
publisher = "University of Lethbridge",
number = "7",
}