Kant’s Presence in Natorp’s Reconstructive Psychology

Abstract

In this paper, I deal with Kant’s presence in Paul Natorp’s psychology. After an introduction in which I analyse the question of psychology in post-Kantian philosophy, I focus on the role of psychology in the Kantian system and show why for Kant it could not be a true science of nature; I then focus on the possibility of an alleged “transcendental psychology”. I then proceed to analyse the relationship between psychology and logic in Hermann Cohen and show the foundations of Natorp’s phenomenological psychology; in the last section, I discuss in detail the Kantian themes of Natorp’s psychology and also the relatively few grounds for disagreement.