In Our Time Kant's Copernican Revolution
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Jun 3, 2021 
Fiona Hughes, Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex, Anil Gomes, Associate Professor at Trinity College, Oxford, and John Cullinan, Senior Lecturer at King's College London, dive into Immanuel Kant's groundbreaking ideas. They discuss Kant's revolutionary viewpoint, paralleling it with Copernicus's astronomical shift. The conversation covers how the mind shapes our experience of reality, the tension between rationalism and empiricism, and the limitations of human understanding. Their analysis reveals the profound impact of Kant's work on contemporary philosophy.
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Kant's Philosophical Goal
- Kant's work addresses the debate between rationalists and empiricists.
- He aimed to define when pure reason can reveal truths about the world.
Beyond Empirical Evidence
- Kant's goal in "Critique of Pure Reason" is to explain our natural tendency to seek answers beyond empirical evidence.
- We inherently ponder questions exceeding our mental capacity, driven by a "natural metaphysics."
Mind's Role in Experience
- Kant argues that the mind structures experience, but doesn't create its content.
- Objects exist externally, but our minds order them into a knowable reality.
