In Cognition, Content, and the A Priori, Robert Hanna works out and defend a five-stage contemporary Kantian theory of (i) intentionality and its contents, including nonconceptual content and conceptual content, (ii) sense perception and perceptual knowledge, including perceptual self-knowledge, (iii) the analytic-synthetic distinction,(iv) the nature of logic, and (v) a priori truth and knowledge in mathematics, logic, and philosophy. Looking at all of these contemporary issues, problems, and topics through Kant-corrected lenses, for me the philosophy of mind—especially including the theory of intentionality and mental content, cognitive semantics, and cognitive phenomenology—and the theory of knowledge, are essentially one and the same subject. Correspondingly, Cognition, Content, and the A Priori builds on and extends the cognitivist theory of logic Hanna developed in Rationality and Logic, and also the metaphysical theories of the mind-body relation, mental causation, and intentional action that Michelle Maiese and Hanna developed in Embodied Minds in Action. The Kantian part of the theory also directly draws on Hanna’s two earlier books, Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy and Kant, Science, and Human Nature. So this book represents the convergence of several of his basic philosophical concerns. Briefly put, the basic aim of Cognition, Content, and the A Priori is nothing more and nothing less than to provide an intelligible and defensible unified contemporary Kantian theory of rational human cognition and knowledge.
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