PREFACE

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

     

    INTRODUCTION

    i. A lifelong concern with real possibility

    ii. Pre-critical dogmatism and the invention of primary forces

    iii. Kant's critical approach to coexistence and systematic unity

    iv. The structure and aims of this study 

     

    CHAPTER ONE.  THE CAUSE OF MOTION IS VIS ACTIVA NOT VIS MOTRIX: KANT'S FIRST SOLUTION TO THE MIND/BODY PROBLEM

    1.1 Kant with—and against—the philosophical tradition

    1.2 Kant's criticism of post-Leibnizian rationalist mechanics
     (Living Forces, part I, §§1-3)

    1.3 A problem and a solution: Kant's metaphysical principle
     of succession

    1.4  The "general concept of active force" and the real possibility of
     temporal order (Living Forces, part I, §4)

    1.5 First application of Kant's account of vis activa: All substances
     in our world are in space (Living Forces, part I, §§7-8)

    1.6 Second application of Kant's account of vis activa: Kant's first
     solution to the mind/body problem (Living Forces, part I, §§5-6)

     

    CHAPTER TWO. EMBODIED COGNITION AND ELEMENTS
     OF KANT'S METAPHYSICS OF THE 1750s

    2.1 Cosmology and the schema of our world

    2.2 Knowledge and the body in Universal Natural History,
    Third Part (1:173-200)

    2.3 The metaphysical underpinnings of Kant's account of embodied cognition

    2.4 Trouble brewing—locating the soul

     

    CHAPTER THREE. DREAMS OF THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY

    3.1 Interpreting Dreams

    3.2 The real possibility of spirit beings

    3.3 The unthinkability of spirit-beings

    3.4 Speculations on materialism

     

    CHAPTER FOUR. A NEW VISION OF THE MIND/BODY PROBLEM: THE INNER SENSE THESIS

    4.1 The wreckage of Kant's early metaphysics

    4.2 Rational cosmology in the Metaphysik L1

    4.3.3 Embodied cognition in Metaphysik L1

    4.4 A new understanding of the mind/body problem

     

    AFTERWORD: THREE DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

    APPENDIX: TRANSLATION OF THOUGHTS ON THE TRUE ESTIMATION OF LIVING FORCES

    BIBLIOGRAPHY