The position of the cultural sciences in the system of symbolic forms of Ernst Cassirer: a study of Zur Logik der Kulturwissenschaften

• Grant number: 23/01492-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2023
• End date: July 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Rafael Rodrigues Garcia
• Grantee: Caio de Almeida Vituriano
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/13405-0 - The phenomenology of perception and the theory of scientific concepts: a study of chapters two and three of The Logic of the Cultural Sciences, BE.EP.IC

Abstract

The present project of research aims to study to what extent the work Logic of the cultural sciences (Zur Logik der Kulturwissenschaften) contributes to the sytematics of culture undertaken by Ernst Cassirer. More specifically, we want to determine how Cassirer, in presentating the groundings of the cultural sciences in order to give a finished treatment of the symbolic form of science, develops significant contributions to clarify the position of the cultural sciences in the system of culture, thus showing how they relate to the philosophical investigatons of the symbolic forms. In this way, we will try to determine how the grounding of the cultural sciences helps the consolidation of the programm of the philosophy of the symbolic forms.