Studied Theory Sense Immanuel Kant  Training Konigsberg Spent

Training: Studied at Konigsberg – spent whole career and life there.

Accomplishments:

Psych cannot be a science: no observable objects, or mathematically deduced relationships – cannot be quantified.  Human rationality is too limited to deal with itself.  Experiments are impossible because observing mental states alters them.

Theory of mind: 3 categories – cognition, affection, and conation (motivation)

Theory of selves: phenoumenal self (outer sense – sensation – study with physiology and anthropology) & noumenal self (inner sense – the soul – cannot be studied save Moral Experience)

Chair of philosophy dept at U of Konigsberg.

Criticisms of others: disagreed with extreme stances of British Empiricists (tabula rasa) like John Stuart Mill

Criticized by others: n/a

Systems: Nativist - certain intuitions are innate and they allow our experiences to take effect. (example of language being an attribute of human mind that allows us to learn to speak)