ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant was the last great thinker of the German-speaking Enlightenment. Though Kant’s model of the mind has been so influential, the way it fits into Kant’s overall project is a bit curious. His thought that he could deduce the conceptual structure of experience from the components of the Aristotelian system of judgments. For Kant, imagination connects elements by forming an image: “imagination has to bring the manifold of intuitions into the form of an image”. He understood ‘imagination’ in its root sense of image-making and did not see imagination as opposed to, but rather a part of, perception. Despite Kant being largely non-empirical, some of his most characteristic doctrines about the mind are now built into the foundations of cognitive science. While the dominant model of the mind in contemporary cognitive science is Kantian, some of his most distinctive contributions have not been assimilated into it.
