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Record W4412992671 · doi:10.32995/cogency.v16i2.435

Revisting Kant and Husserl on the Copernican Turn

2025· article· en· W4412992671 on OpenAlexaff
Michael Blézy

Bibliographic record

VenueCogency · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy and Historical Thought
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCopernican principlePhilosophyEpistemologyTurn (biochemistry)Physics

Abstract

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Abstract: In the following paper, I argue that none of the recent criticisms of Kant’s transcendental idealism offered on behalf of Husserl scholars such as Dominique Pradelle give us reason to think that Husserlian phenomenology moves beyond Kant’s “revolutionary” Copernican turn in the subject-object relation. I begin by first providing an interpretation of Kant’s Copernican turn and then outline three issues with Kant’s transcendental idealism that scholars like Pradelle take as reason to reject Kant’s revolution in philosophy. Specifically, Kant’s transcendental idealism makes reference to the thing-it-itself, construes the subject of the turn along psychological lines, and results in skepticism. I then provide reasons why these supposed issues with Kant’s theory, especially when we take into account the Kantian defenses that can be assembled against them, ought not motivate us to think Husserl’s phenomenology does not adhere to the Copernician turn or move beyond it. Finally, I make the case that if we take into consideration the role played by the unity of apperception in Kant’s account of object constitution, then Kant and Husserl, far from differing on the turn, are in fact, and contra thinkers like Pradelle, closer on the topic of the objects of consciousness than is typically appreciated.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.088

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.075
Scholarly communication0.0080.010
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0040.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.185 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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