id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-iep-utm-edu-4983 Kant: Philosophy of Mind | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy .html text/html 15643 1020 56 Kant thus believes that the capacity to cognitively ascend from mere discriminatory awareness of one's environment (intuition), to an awareness of those features by means of which one discriminates (perception), and finally to an awareness of the objects which ground these features (experience), depends on the kinds of mental processes of which the subject is capable. Kant's strategy attempts to validate the legitimacy of the a priori categories proceeds by way of a "transcendental argument." It takes the conditions necessary for consciousness of the identity of oneself as the subject of different self-attributed mental states and ties them together with those necessary for grounding the possibility of representing an object distinct from oneself. As Robert Hanna has argued, when Kant discusses the dependence of intuition on conceptual judgment in the Analytic of Concepts, he specifically talks about cognition rather than what others would consider to be perceptual experience (Hanna (2005), 265-7). ./cache/www-iep-utm-edu-4983.html ./txt/www-iep-utm-edu-4983.txt