QUESTIONING THE SOUL. ON C. W. DYCK'S KANT AND RATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, OXFORD: OUP, 2014, PP. 257

Abstract

Among the most recent examples of works dealing with the history of Kant’s sources, the work by C. Dyck deserves a special place both for his ambitious goal and the breadth of
the historical analysis that accompanies this goal. The author’s basic assumption is that, “In contrast to the narrowly rationalistic approach to the soul which would proceed completely independently of experience, the rational psychology pioneered by the theorists of the German tradition relies essentially upon empirical psychology”. Indeed, according to Wolff, when our investigation comes to the soul it “is to be considered rationalistic only in a much broader sense
in that [… it] is not limited to what can be directly known through experience” (p. 9).