Resumen

ALVAREZ P, María Carolina. Newton, Kant and the use of hypothesis in natural science. EPISTEME [online]. 2015, vol.35, n.1, pp.1-12. ISSN 0798-4324.

In the year that the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (1787) is published marks the centenary of the publication of the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy of Newton, one hundred years when Newtonian physics was put in question and proved its effectiveness, despite the criticism. The dilemma for philosophy was to give a foundation for that knowledge which begins in observation but does not stop in it, but, with the help of mathematics, rises from the experience in the pursuit of that which organizes the world, which was achieved with Kant's work. Kant's question about the possibility of a priori knowledge is the question about the possibility of pure mathematics and pure natural science. This paper presents the Kantian thesis on the validity of using hypotheses in natural science framed in the Newtonian negative.

Palabras clave : hypotheses; hypotheses non fingo; certainty.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )