Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• ramezan mahdavi azadboni

associate Professor of university of Mazandaran

Abstract

In the Modern age, dealing with epistemological issues was in the center of attention. For Kant, epistemological issues were the main concern, but Kant's distinction in dealing with epistemological issues compared to his predecessors lies in the fact that before presenting his epistemological theory, he prioritizes knowledge of the mind and structure. What distinguishes Kant about the mind is a theory that is referred to as the Copernican revolution. According to this theory, the relationship between mind and the object is different from what was inherited from the past and the mind, as the agent of knowledge, affects the object. The central issue of the current research is to address the challenge of whether Kant, through his Copernican revolution regarding human understanding, served this concern in the framework of the epistemic assumptions of the modern era, which sought to display the mechanism of the possibility of knowledge by relying on "justified honest belief". In this research, the aim is to investigate the mentioned problem with a descriptive-analytical method. With a critical approach and focusing on Kant's works, the author has come to the conclusion that Kant's view of the mind has not served the epistemological concern of the modern era and the possibility of knowledge based on the correspondence theory that has been common in epistemology from the age of Plato to the 20th century. It suffers some kind of internal inconsistency and in some way leads to giving up the innate human desire to know and ignoring it.

Keywords

• Kant
• truth
• Mind
• Copernican revolution
• the Theory of Correspondence

Main Subjects

• epistemology