Kant and the technic of nature

• Grant number: 12/03743-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2012
• End date: September 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Ubirajara Rancan de Azevedo Marques
• Grantee: Oscar Vinicius Sillmann Leite
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/09562-1 - Technique of the power of judgment and formal technique of nature in 'Critique of the Power of Judgment', BE.EP.MS

Abstract

This investigation aims to identify and to explicit the concept of "technic of nature" ("Technik der Natur") in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, looking to show its genesis, the background questions related to it and its relevance to the problems treated in this work. Our research moves around the problems posed by the empirical laws discovered in experience to the racional demands of systematicity and completeness of knowledge, which implies a conception of nature as a systematic whole. We look to show the role of the concept of "technic of nature" in grounding the possibility of scientific investigation, evidencing the transcendental assumptions that allow to coadunate the logic-formal aspects whereby the reflecting power of jugment produces a conceptual system from the material aspects of nature presented in experience.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LEITE, Oscar Vinicius Sillmann. O conceito de Técnica da Natureza na Crítica da Faculdade do Juízo de Kant. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências. Marília Marília.