Projects
The aim of this project is to shed important light on the nature, limits and plurality of human understanding by developing a new conception of its finitude. Apparently, there are epistemic and non-epistemic reasons for the existence of different kinds of understanding. In this project, I shall study the epistemic sources of the plurality of understanding. By my lights, they lie ultimately in its finitude. The project consists in the main of the following working hypotheses:
(1) The nature and varieties of human understanding of reality are related to its finitude.
(2) Тhe finitude of understanding manifests itself particularly in the limitations of the a priori access to the necessary conditions of phenomena.
(3) These limitations imply that there is an incommensurability between the logical space of understanding and the logical space of its objects.
(4) The phenomenon of incommensurability is essentially related to the nature of representation and indicates the structural limitations of the different kinds of understanding of reality.
(5) The competition of incommensurable conceptions transforms the boundaries of human understanding.
(1) The nature and varieties of human understanding of reality are related to its finitude.
(2) Тhe finitude of understanding manifests itself particularly in the limitations of the a priori access to the necessary conditions of phenomena.
(3) These limitations imply that there is an incommensurability between the logical space of understanding and the logical space of its objects.
(4) The phenomenon of incommensurability is essentially related to the nature of representation and indicates the structural limitations of the different kinds of understanding of reality.
(5) The competition of incommensurable conceptions transforms the boundaries of human understanding.