CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Ilaria Ferrara
Memory, in New Elucidation, is criticized as a method of the ars combinatoria; in Dreams memory is connected to the concept of inner sense and in, the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant does not offer a treatment of memory in a transcendental sense, since the building up of cognitive principles is fixed on the synthetic judgments of experience. In Transcendental Analytics, Kant considers the activity of memory within those transitional operations of the reproductive imagination in the inner sense, which produce unified representations through the stabilizing activity of schematism. Kant also focuses on the theme of memory in the Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View and, maintaining the traditional de-qualification of the faculty with respect to the transcendental foundation, he manages to link the theme to a cosmopolitan interest. The contemporary approach to memory, in reference to the conception of space, is connected to cognitive neuroscience but maintains the presuppositions of Kantian philosophy.