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Record W4416623191 · doi:10.1515/kant-2025-2027

Introduction: Kant and the Berlin Academy

2025· article· en· W4416623191 on OpenAlexaff
Christian Leduc

Bibliographic record

VenueKant-Studien · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophical Ethics and Theory
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetaphysicsDoctrineInstitutionCompetition (biology)Connection (principal bundle)Focus (optics)

Abstract

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Kant's engagement with the Berlin Academy has primarily been studied on two accounts.First, his prize essay submitted for the Academy's competition on the comparison between mathematical and metaphysical truths, for which he was awarded the accessit, has drawn considerable attention.This essay anticipates aspects of his critical philosophy, particularly themes later developed in the Doctrine of Method within the Critique of Pure Reason, regarding the nature of philosophical and mathematical reasoning.As such, the 1763 essay stands out as one of Kant's most thoroughly studied pre-critical works.1 Second, scholars have also focused on Kant's 1793/95 manuscripts addressing the Academy's prize question on the progress of metaphysics.These writings represent one of his final reflections on the possibility of metaphysics and offer insights into the trajectory of his critical philosophy within the historical development of metaphysics.2Even on these occasions, the focus has typically remained on Kant himself, rather than on his relationship with the Berlin Academy, either as an institution or in connection with its individual members.This is unfortunate, as it is well known that Kant held many Academy members in high regard, such as Maupertuis, Euler, Sulzer, and Lambert.More broadly, Kant's connection with the Berlin Academy was extensive, multiple, and dates to the earliest years of his philosophical career.Beyond the two well-known prize competitions of 1763 and 1795, numerous Kantian texts are tied to the Academy's activities.His Physical Monadology of 1756, for example, was written a few years after the Academy's 1747 prize competition on monads and clearly aimed to contribute to the discussions that emerged from that contest.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.092

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0280.005

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.231 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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