Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Ramezan Mahdavi-Azadboni

Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran

Abstract

In the Modern age, dealing with epistemological issues was at the center of attention. For Kant, epistemology was also the main concern, but what distinguishes Kant from his predecessors in addressing epistemological issues is that before presenting his epistemological theory, he prioritized the knowledge of the mind and its functional 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 true 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, which has been prevalent in epistemology from the era of Plato to the twentieth century, and in fact suffers from a kind of internal inconsistency and, in a way, leads to giving up and ignoring the inherent human desire to know.

Keywords

• Kant
• Truth
• Mind
• Copernican Revolution
• The Theory of Correspondence

Main Subjects

• epistemology