A Road Towards a New Paradigm

English Editorial

Abstract

A pivot of philosophical epistemology from Kant onwards, the concept of synthesis in all its practical, theoretical, and methodological meanings does not yet seem to have found a satisfactory description and definition. It is Kant’s merit to have identified in the idea of synthesis one of the central questions of philosophy. However, this achievement has remained equivocal or partial. The results of the successive operations of adjustment to the fundamental Kantian intuition have been the object of varying evaluations. The hypothesis of Cavaillès was that basically all philosophy following Kant had tried to amend the work of the German philosopher while remaining within a “philosophy of consciousness.” The crisis of the paradigm of the “philosophy of consciousness” prompted the need to entirely rethink the paradigm in mathematics and in other forms of knowledge. As an alternative, the new paradigm of a “philosophy of gesture” appears of the greatest importance.