ANALYSIS AND MODIFICATION OF KANT’S CRITERIA OF TRUE SCIENCE
Vladimir Moiseevich Reznikov1,2
1Institute of Philosophy and Law Siberian Brench of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia
2Novosibirsk National Research State University
Keywords: Aristotle, Galileo, Gelfand, Einstein, science, mathematics, physics, axiomatics
Abstract
In contemporary science, Kant’s well-known statement that the degree of scientificity of a discipline grow up together with the increase in the volume of mathematics used in it has the status of a practically normative criteria of scientific rigour. The main aim of the article consists in verification of validity of the criterion. I research Kant’s criterion from pragmatic positions. From a pragmatic point of view the basic element of the Kant’s criterion is universality of mathematics in the context of solving the different problems in any knowledge fields. One of the possible consequences of universality is the following conditional statement: if physics follows a mathematical style, then this leads to progress in knowledge. However, from of the history of physics it is known that von Neumann’s axiomatics of quantum physics wasn’t accepted by physicists. Using this and other examples I refute hypothesis about mathematical universality. In conclusion I propose some modification of Kant’s criterion.
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