O intuicionismo Kantiano à Luz do Logicismo e do Cognitivismo: Uma defesa da intuição pura do espaço e do tempo

Abstract

The Kantian philosophy of mathematics is based on an intuitionist epistemological structure. The categories of space and time are the forms of sensibility, these forms manifested through a pure intuition a priori. The present work seeks to make a reasonable defense of such intuition in the face of contemporary critics, who propose a logicist program devoid of epistemic structure regarding mathematical reasoning. Such critics claim that arithmetic does not need the pure intuition of time for numerical operations to be performed. We will try to demonstrate that the quantificational logic constitutes a merely formalistic expedient that leaves aside the epistemological problems of the mathematical cognition and, for this reason, it can ambition to disregard the pure Kantian intuition. Therefore, we shall try to demonstrate that pure Kantian intuition can still shed light on the nature of mathematical calculations.