Question

What is the "Copernican revolution in philosophy"?

Answer 1

Kate's contribution is his "Copernican Revolution," that, as he puts it, itit basically the representation which makes the object possible instead than the object that makes the representation possible. This helps in introducing the human mind as an active originator of whole these experience rather than just a passive recipient of perception. Something like it's obvious: the mind could be a tabula rasa, a "blank tablet," no more than a bathtub full of silicon chips could be a digital computer. Perceptual input are processed, i.e. recognized, or it would just be noise -- "less even than a dream" or "nothing to us," as Kant alternatively puts it.

Our knowledge of the world of our experience is inevitably a knowledge which is being constructed through our own frameworks belonging different categories - which gives rise to questions about whether our "knowledge" is anything to do with the "world as it is."