The late Enlightenment scholar Immanuel Kant’s position on the nascent discipline of psychology was that the field was better suited to being an aspect of philosophy (metaphysics) and not of science. As your text discusses, Kant believed that essential aspects of psychology were not amenable to objective empirical study because it was predicated on subjective personal experience, which he called the noumenal ‘I’. For Kant psychology could not be a science because

1) it could never control the mental processes it studied and
2) mental processes are aspects of the immaterial mind (Leary, 1982). Nonetheless, Kant believed that the mind could be known though introspection, investigation of one’s own thought processes, though this process was never scientific since no outside observer could ‘see’ another’s introspection. Still Kant believed that mind could be described therefore known by the functions it performs, specifically organizing and locating objects. While Kant is not a psychologist (the field of psychology did not yet exist in Kant’s time) his ideas about the mind are precursors to basic principle of modern cognitive psychology, one of the psychology’s most empirical disciplines.
Using the discussion of Kant and his contemporaries’ perspectives on psychology write a brief 300-350 word post supporting or refuting the position that psychology is a science.

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