Philosophisches Jahrbuch

‘Freedom’ is the motto of Enlightenment. During the period called Classical German Philosophy, philosophers like Kant and Hegel tried to apply the notion of freedom not only to the field of practical, but also of theoretical philosophy....

The success of the natural sciences has led to the widespread view that the course of reality is necessarily determined by natural laws. This view is known to be in tension with the idea that people can act freely and are therefore responsible for...

Boyle’s account of self-consciousness is inspired by a long-standing theme in Kant and the post-Kantian idealist tradition, according to which “self-consciousness transforms the general character of human knowing” (Boyle 2023, 12). In this...

Matthew Boyle’s Transparency and Reflection articulates and defends what might be called a ‘transformative’ view of self-awareness. The human capacity for self-awareness is part of the very nature of our minds, not added to a form of mentality...

Human existence is essentially temporal. Our past, present, and future permeate each other and their mutual dynamic is crucial to the flourishing of our existence. Obviously, though, we are not fully in control of our own temporal realization. So,...

One central goal of Transparency and Reflection is to explain how self-knowledge is possible, while adhering to the principle that knowledge of mental states is ‘transparent’ to knowledge of the world. I argue that the resources that Matthew...