Copernican revolution in philosophy

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Kantian concept epistemological doctrine philosophical concept turn in modern philosophy

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
instanceOf	Kantian concept ⓘ epistemological doctrine ⓘ philosophical concept ⓘ turn in modern philosophy ⓘ
addressesQuestion	How are synthetic a priori judgments possible? ⓘ How is experience of an objective world possible? ⓘ
aimsTo	limit metaphysics to the conditions of possible experience ⓘ 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 ⓘ 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 ⓘ 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 ⓘ 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 ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ
formulatedBy	Immanuel Kant ⓘ
historicalPeriod	18th century ⓘ
influenced	20th‑century analytic philosophy ⓘ 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 ⓘ 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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