Patricia W. Kitcher

Kitcher is the Roberta and William Campbell Professor Emerita of the Humanities at Columbia University. Kitcher has written many articles and two books on Kant, Kant's Transcendental Psychology (1990) and Kant's Thinker (2011). The first book argued--against the dominant view of P. F. Strawson--that Kantian epistemology could not be understood without his transcendental psychology. In the second, Kitcher fleshes out her views about the necessity of an integrated thinking subject. The focus of Kitcher's work has been on how the Critique can contribute to current debates in philosophy of mind and epistemology. A third book, Freud's Dream (1992), argues that Freud was the first cognitive scientist and that psychoanalysis should be thought of as an exercise in interdisciplinary theory construction.