The author picks up an argument from the Critique of Pure Reason, where Kant asserts that the conception of ourselves as the enduring subject of our mental life is enough to function as the ground for the possibility of our objective experiences and judgments, even though that is nevertheless insufficient to settle what we as human beings really are. In order to have knowledge about us as human beings and individuals, we need to situate ourselves in the causal order. But, she asks, how is the link between these two kinds of self-conception to …