Abstract

LOPARIC, Zeljko. From Kant to Freud: a reader’s guide. Nat. hum. [online]. 2003, vol.5, n.1, pp. 231-245. ISSN 1517-2430.

This commentary analyzes a short text by late Kant on speculative physiology. It ilustrates main metodological principles of Kant's research programme for natural sciences - according to which speculative fictions with exclusively heuristic value are allowed to be used in observing and organizing phenomena in search for empirical laws - and in addition it anticipates, both methodologically and espistemologically, Freud's writings on physilogical metapsychology.

Keywords : Kant; Freud; Physiology; Forces; Speculation; Heuristics.

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