Part of the Philosophy research seminar series.

“Transcendental Presuppositions and the Copernican Revolution”. A research presentation by Edward Thornton (Royal Holloway). 

Abstract: In this paper I try to show that Kant is a much more experimental thinker than he first seems. To do this, I will examine the nature of the presuppositions contained in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. More specifically, by reading Kant’s comments on the Copernican revolution alongside his Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic, I will argue that Kant’s presupposition of the unity of reason is not simply regulative, but that it is constitutive of the science of Metaphysics.