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SUMMARY:Kant on psychology as  'physiology of the inner sense' - Katharina
  Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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DESCRIPTION:Kant's views on mathematics and the exact sciences\, such as p
 hysics\, have long been discussed. However\, his account of psychology has
  often been neglected or even dismissed in debates on his significance as 
 a philosopher of science. Within his project of a critique of human reason
 \, Kant nevertheless gives psychology several meta-theoretical considerati
 ons. In various works\, most notably in the _Critique of Pure Reason_ and 
 the _Metaphysical Foundations_\, Kant criticises the conception of psychol
 ogy of his contemporaries\, particularly of the Wolffian tradition\, accor
 ding to which the discipline was divided into _Empirical_ and _Rational Ps
 ychology_ and mainly based on introspection.\n\nIn this paper\, I reconstr
 uct Kant's view of psychology which he characterizes as 'physiology of the
  inner sense'. In particular\, I will address two questions\, firstly\, as
  to how Kant demarcates psychology from his transcendental philosophy and 
 secondly\, as to how he conceives the division of labour between psycholog
 y and physics. The answers are based on the two main arguments he presents
  against the traditional conception of psychology\, a metaphysical argumen
 t against a rational foundation of psychology and a methodological argumen
 t against\nthe mathematisability of psychology.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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