ABSTRACT

Cassirer’s neo-Kantian epistemology has become a classical reference in contemporary history and philosophy of science. However, the historical aspects of his thought are sometimes seen to be in some tension with his defence of a priori elements of knowledge. This paper reconsiders Cassirer’s strategy to address this tension by positing functional dependencies at the core of the notion of objectivity. This requires the epistemologist to account for the determination of the objects of knowledge within given scientific theories, but also for conceptual changes over time.

中文翻译：

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恩斯特·卡西尔论历史思想与认识论的分界问题

摘要

卡西尔的新康德认识论已成为当代科学史和科学哲学的经典参考。然而，有时人们认为他思想的历史方面与他对先验知识要素的辩护存在某种紧张关系。本文重新考虑了卡西尔通过将函数依赖置于客观性概念的核心来解决这种紧张关系的策略。这要求认识论者既要考虑在给定科学理论中知识对象的确定，也要考虑随着时间的推移而发生的概念变化。