Kant and I as subject

In the last few years, various Kantian commentators have drawn attention to a number of features in the self-reference device of transcendental apperception that have emerged from the contemporary debate on the irreducibility of self-ascription of thoughts in the first person. Known as I-thoughts, these have suggested a connection between some aspects of Kant’s philosophy and Wittgenstein’s philosophico-linguistic analysis of the grammatical rule of the term I. This paper would like to review some of such correspondences, avoiding any mechanical association between Kant and an elusive reading of the I think, e. g. as suggested mutatis mutandis by McDowell and Kitcher.