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A filosofia kantiana e a construcao das ciencias da natureza : os fundamentos da geografia fisica moderna

2009; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5212/terraplural.v.32i1.117136

1982-095X

Antônio Carlos Vitte, Roberison Wittgeinstein Dias da Silveira,

Environmental Sustainability and Education

This paper focuses on the in� uential role of some philosophical principles of Kant for the metaphysical constitution of natural sciences, and especially for physical geography.The Kantian thesis for a metaphysics of science is mainly based on the role of space as a structuring category for mundane knowledge, but also involves the transcendental character of nature.Thus, physical geography is the result of a philosophical re� ection where the empirical experience is more than a simple location of a phenomenon, but articulates the mechanical and the causal element with transcendental factors.Such an approach paves the construction of geographical laws to understand the distribution of nature on the surface of the Earth, a project developed by Alexander von Humboldt.As such, Physical Geography is the result of philosophical re� ection on nature in modern times.