On a Certain Inversion of Critique in the Kantian Sense
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criticism, science, speculation, scientific minimalismAbstract
Kant defined his sense of critique as the sovereign power that aims to introduce metaphysics onto the solid path of science. Undeniably, this legitimate claim presupposed that science was following a secure path. For Kant, this was certainly the stabilized procedure followed by Copernicus and Newton, what Kant called the "Copernican revolution." However, when science itself is subject to its own open historicity, perhaps the point of critique is to prevent the return of metaphysics, with its virtuous paralogisms and antinomies—no less dangerous than its ideals of totality—through a thoughtless use of the not fully established developments of the path of science. The purpose of this work is to argue in favor of what I call “scientific minimalism” as a protocolary form of relating science and philosophy.
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