Copernican revolution in philosophy
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The Copernican revolution in philosophy is Immanuel Kant’s radical shift that places the human mind and its a priori structures at the center of how objects are known, rather than assuming knowledge must conform to independently existing things.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Kantian concept
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epistemological doctrine ⓘ philosophical concept ⓘ turn in modern philosophy ⓘ |
| addressesQuestion |
How are synthetic a priori judgments possible?
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How is experience of an objective world possible? ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
limit metaphysics to the conditions of possible experience
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reconcile rationalism and empiricism ⓘ secure the foundations of natural science ⓘ |
| articulatedIn | Critique of Pure Reason ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Immanuel Kant ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
empiricist assumption that the mind is a passive receiver of impressions
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naive realism ⓘ pre‑Kantian metaphysics that assumes cognition must conform to objects ⓘ |
| coreIdea |
knowledge is structured by a priori forms and categories of the mind
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objects of experience must conform to the conditions of human cognition ⓘ the subject plays an active role in constituting experience ⓘ we know appearances (phenomena) rather than things in themselves (noumena) ⓘ |
| epistemicClaim |
causality is a category imposed by the understanding on appearances
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space and time are a priori forms of intuition rather than properties of things in themselves ⓘ universal and necessary features of experience derive from the mind’s a priori structures ⓘ |
| field |
epistemology
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metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
| formulatedBy | Immanuel Kant ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th‑century analytic philosophy
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ
surface form:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Johann Gottlieb Fichte ⓘ neo‑Kantianism ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries ⓘ |
| inScienceAnalogy | reverses the relation between subject and object analogous to Copernicus’s reversal of Earth and Sun ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Nicolaus Copernicus ⓘ |
| methodologicalRole | grounds the possibility of objective knowledge in the structures of subjectivity ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Nicolaus Copernicus ⓘ |
| philosophicalImpact | marks a major turning point in modern Western philosophy ⓘ |
| philosophicalMovement | German idealism ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
a priori knowledge
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categories of the understanding ⓘ forms of intuition ⓘ phenomena and noumena distinction ⓘ synthetic a priori judgments ⓘ transcendental idealism ⓘ |
| statusInKantScholarship | central interpretive key to Kant’s critical philosophy ⓘ |
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