Frierson address the question of how Kant sees "pragmatic anthropology." He lays out Kant's general sense of "pragmatic" and then his specific treatment of humans' "mode of thought," or Denkungsart, a concept central to the empirical investigation of human freedom. In the end, a discussion of this concept provides answers to the questions of how anthropology studies human beings "as free" and, more generally, what Kant's pragmatic anthropology is.