Kant a természet fogalmáról, avagy egy kritika kritikája

According to Kant’s speculative philosophy, the very same principles are responsible for (a) the possibility of ordered experience; (b) the possibility of nature itself; and (c) the possibility of scientific knowledge about nature. This paper argues that the identification of these principles results in an unreasonable limitation of the role of reason in our knowledge of nature; it overrates the importance of sensual experience in the construction of scientific concepts which represent nature; and reduces the notion of objectivity as mind-independent truth to mere intersubjective justifiability. The paper concludes with the suggestion that Cartesian rationalism can offer a better philosophical foundation of modern sciences, which are often critical to how we sensibly perceive the world, than Kant’s critical philosophy.