Self-Conscious, Thinking Subject

Robert Abele is Professor of Philosophy at Diablo Valley College, USA. He is the author of A User's Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act (2005); The Anatomy of a Deception: A Logical and Ethical Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq (2009); and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Global Justice (2012).

• 1. The Primacy of Judgment.- 2. Judgment.- 3: Synthesis: The Common Form of Judgment and Perception.- 4. Synthesis and the Forms of Judgment in Perception.- 5. The Unity of Cognition in the Synthetic Unity of Apperception.- 6. The Drawbacks of Empirical Metaphoric Reductionism.- 7. The Politics of Negative Ontology: Postmodernism.