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In Kant and the demands of self-consciousness, Pierre Keller examines
Kant’s theory of self-consciousness and argues that it eeds in
explaining how both subjective and objective experience are poss-
ible. Previous interpretations of Kant’s theory have held that he
treats all self-consciousness as knowledge of objective states of
affairs, and also, often, that self-consciousness can be interpreted as
knowledge of personal identity. By contrast, Keller argues for a
new understanding of Kant’s conception of self-consciousness as
the capacity to abstract not only from what one happens to be
experiencing, but also from one’s own personal identity. By devel-
oping this new interpretation, Keller is able to argue that transcen-
dental self-consciousness underwrites a general theory of objectiv-
ity and subjectivity at the same time.
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versity of California, Riverside. He has published a number of
articles on Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl.
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KANT AND THE
DEMANDS OF
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
PIERRE KELLER
University of California, Riverside
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Contents
Acknowledgments page vi
 Introduction 
 Introducing apperception 
 Concepts, laws, and the recognition of objects 
 Self-consciousness and the demands of judgment in the
B-Deduction 
 Self-consciousness and the uni