Browsing: Causality

The conditions of knowledge shift from the constituting subject to historical discourse and episteme, and finally toward data, models, algorithms, and synthetic production in the age of artificial intelligence.

Panofsky’s early theory examines how art history can produce valid knowledge through conceptual categories, historical context, internal structure, and disciplined interpretation.

Ernst Cassirer represents the transition from Marburg Neo-Kantian epistemology toward a philosophy of symbolic forms encompassing language, myth, culture, and art.

Panofsky’s concept of Sinn defines the work of art as a historically situated yet internally organized unity in which form, content, and meaning become inseparable.

From revelation as transmitted knowledge to Aristotle’s causal understanding of being and Kant’s critical inquiry into the conditions of experience, this essay traces changing forms of knowledge.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on Kant’s doctrine of schematism. The composition represents pure concepts on one side and sensible appearances on the other, connected through imagination and the temporal forms of number, persistence, succession, simultaneity, possibility, actuality, and necessity.