Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - StumbleUpon. Authors listed chronologically: free web books, online. Paste the text you want to speed read. Kants View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self (Stanford Encyclopedia of... First published Mon Jul 26, 2004; substantive revision Tue Jan 22, 2013 Even though Kant himself held that his view of the mind and consciousness were inessential to his main purpose, some of his ideas came to have an enormous influence on his successors.
Ideas central to his view are now central to cognitive science. Other ideas equally central to his point of view had almost no influence on subsequent work, however. In this article, first we survey Kant's model as a whole and the claims that have been influential.