Kant's transcendental unity of apperception

Cassam follows in the footsteps of Immanuel Kant, who argued that for experience of the world to be possible, there has to be a fundamental unity within the subject of experience which allows the world to be perceived. Kant calls this the ‘transcendental unity of apperception’: the unity of inner experience necessary for any particular experience of the world to be perceived as part of a wider, unified whole. There must be an ‘I think’ which necessarily accompanies all thought, which allows the manifold of experiences to be grasped as a coherent whole in conscious experience.

Saved 23 April 2015

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