Kant, “I Think”, and the Question of Self-Identification

The aim of this paper is to investigate some theoretical aspects of Kant’s philosophy that are connected to the representamen ‘I’ and the question of self-identification in self-consciousness. The subjective capacity to represent oneself through the representamen ‘I’ is understood in terms of the structure of the so-called de se or I-thoughts developed by Perry and Recanati. This entails a contrast between Longuenesse’s view and the author’s approach to self-identification and the different uses of I as subject.