id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt web-archive-org-9132 Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame .html text/html 4284 220 56 At once both historical and critical in orientation, Sturm seeks to situate the development of Kant's pragmatic anthropology within the extensive eighteenth-century debate on the human sciences (here he focuses primarily on psychology, anthropology, and history) as well as to offer a qualified defense of the scientific integrity of Kant's project. In Chapter II ("Debates about Psychology and Anthropology in the Eighteenth Century"), Sturm focuses in particular on two leading options that Kant eventually rejects: "empirical psychology" and "physiological anthropology." The former, which usually goes by the name of "introspective psychology" in Anglophone circles, is associated primarily with Christian Wolff and Alexander Baumgarten in Germany, and starts from the assumption that the soul is a distinct object that can be studied empirically -viz., through introspection and reflection, or what Locke called "that notice which the mind takes of its own operations" (An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingII.i.4; cf. ./cache/web-archive-org-9132.html ./txt/web-archive-org-9132.txt