A interpretação externalista de Kant

Abstract

The externalist interpretation of Kant allows for a ratumal reconstruction of what is fundamental to transcendental idealism action Kant resorts to atum several times in the Critique of Pure Reason The very notum of "synthests," whicdt plays a vital role in hzs philosophy, is presented as a Handlung The externalist interpretation endeavours to expiam what Kant means by anon In those cantexts so as to make philosophical sense of Kant's thought and at the same time to prevent it from being turned into a flawed mternalism Whereas internalism struggles to present synthesis as a mental act that is as private as thinking quietly, or even as an unc.cmscious activity, externalism shows that, according to Kant, human knowledge depends an the ability to carry out observable cictions that involve human body in a very particular way In tias article, externalism wzll be vinclicated zn relaticm to (1) the faundatzons of Kant's conception of figurative synthesis of transcendental imagmation, and (2) the nature of transcendental esquemata in his cntical speculative phdosophy