The Metaphysics of Science: The View of Aristotle, Kant and The Vienna Circle

Abstract

The problem of metaphysics and its connections/references to science is very interesting in itself. This question has been posed and tried to be solved by many philosophers, as well as representatives of exact sciences. The analysis of databases such as PhilPapers or entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may discourage you from taking up this subject again. If I dare to do so, referring to Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Rudolf Carnap, or, more broadly, the Vienna Circle, but also Hans Reichenbach, it is not because I see close connections here, but because, I believe, this problem can be solved.

Aristotle and his attempt to systematize knowledge must be made the starting point. Although the proposals represented by other philosophers and representatives of exact sciences depart from the views of the Stagirite, it is in him and in logic and rhetoric that one can look for an attempt to outline the mutual relations of both, seemingly distant, fields. This study is a proposal to resolve the questions related to these compounds.