title: The Conscious Self: The Immaterial Center of Subjective States
author:  David H. Lund 
description: David H. Lund (Bemidji, MN), professor of philosophy and former chair of the philosophy department at Bemidji State University, is the author of Making Sense of It All: An Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry; Perception, Mind, and Personal Identity; and Death and Consciousness.
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  In Kant and the demands of self-consciousness, Pierre Keller examines
  Kant’s theory of self-consciousness and argues that it succeeds in
  explaining how both subjective and objective experience are poss-
  ible. Previous interpretations of Kant’s theory have held that he
  treats all self-consciousness as knowledge of objective states of
  aﬀairs, and also, often, that self-consciousness can be interpreted as
  knowledge of personal identity. By contrast, Keller argues for a
  new understanding of Kant’s conception of self-consciousness as
  the capacity to abstract not only from what one happens to be
  experiencing, but also from one’s own personal identity. By devel-
  oping this new interpretation, Keller is able to argue that transcen-
  dental self-consciousness underwrites a general theory of objectiv-
  ity and subjectivity at the same time.
    is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Uni-
  versity of