O empirismo conjectural de Kant

Abstract

The following article intends to present the epistemological thesis of Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason as a conjectural empiricism. The part of the work that was focused on this project is the Transcendental Analytic, with special focus on the argument of Transcendental Deduction. It has been suggested that the theory of synthetic principles - used to identify an objective unity in representations - points to an epistemology centered on heuristic principles, (although this connection only gets clear when Kant discusses the regulative use of ideas in the Doctrine of Method). This point will be explored through the thesis that the Critique of Pure Reason contains a conjectural empiricism. We intend to present the notion of conjecture as a key concept to understand the uniqueness of Kant's doctrinal complex in the first work of the Critical period, especially to explain his intermediate position (between empiricism and rationalism) and to explain the solution he finds in order to propose a kind of realism detached from metaphysics.