• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Feeling, Orientation and Agency in Kant: A Response to Merritt and Eran
  • Contributor: Cohen, Alix
  • Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021
  • Published in: Kantian Review, 26 (2021) 3, Seite 379-391
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s1369415421000297
  • ISSN: 1369-4154; 2044-2394
  • Keywords: Philosophy
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>On my interpretation of Kant, feeling plays a central role in the mind: it has the distinct function of tracking and evaluating our activity in relation to ourselves and the world so as to orient us. In this article, I set out to defend this view against a number of objections raised by Melissa Merritt and Uri Eran. I conclude with some reflections on the fact that, despite being very different, Merritt and Eran’s respective views of Kantian feelings turn out to have something potentially problematic in common: they blur the boundary between feelings and other kinds of mental states.</jats:p>