ABSTRACT
The German Idealist tradition after Immanuel Kant has much of interest to say on key questions in the philosophy of mind, though this is not always easy to draw out, given their dense prose and often unelaborated or even merely implicit allusions to their predecessors or to one another. As Kant's 'Critical' project provides the most significant impetus for the Idealist contributions to philosophy of mind, begins by setting out some of the aspects most relevant to subsequent developments. In preparation for the examination of knowledge in its concluding part, the bulk of Kant's Critique is thereby devoted to presenting the 'Doctrine of the Elements' of our cognition. Kant's Critical project concerning knowledge therefore takes its 'elementary' starting point a rich picture of our mind, its capacities, acts, products (representations), and consciousness, and how all of these contribute to the more primitive act of cognition.
