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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - Video 9: Reality and the Copernican turn
Philosophy

by Victor Gijsbers

am 2026-01-30

Understanding Kant's Copernican Turn: A Deeper Dive To really grasp Immanuel Kant's "Copernican turn" (or "Copernican revolution") in philosophy, we need to go beyond the catchy slogan that it's about objects conforming to our minds rather than the other way around. While that's a common shorthand, as the lecturer in the video points out (and as echoed in various philosophical analyses), it's overly simplistic and can sound like a magical or causal explanation—implying our thoughts somehow "create" reality in a …