A poética da criação científica: reflexões kantianas sobre verdade e antiverdade no sentido extraempírico

Abstract

This work, first of all, seeks to show, that Kant takes a clearly anti-realist position in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Scienceby rejecting atomism in favor of dynamism. In this book, he resorts to argumentswhose epistemic value is not based on the idea of truth as correspondence or on a semantic connection betweenconcept and world. Such a position is defended here as fictionalist because it is based on the ideal of systematicand harmonic unity of the theory projected in a totally fictional way by reason. Secondly, this work intends to bring this Kantian position closer to Nietzsche's fictionalist position as interpreted and developed by Vaihingerin the last chapter of his book The Philosophy of “As If”. Third, we will seek to demonstrate that such affinity between Kant and Nietzsche from the perspective of fictionalism can also be established from two commoninfluences: that of the Greek writer Luciano de Samosata and the philosopher Roger Boscovich. The title of thiswork thus seeks to reflect this possible dialogue between two of the greatest representatives of epistemicfictionalism.