Abstract

The goal of the present essay is to show how the Kantian philosophy contributes to the carrying out of the philosophical program, firstly enunciated by Francis Bacon and resumed successively by some of the most distinguished modern thinkers, on the making of an ‘ars inveniendi’, that is, a logic of discovery of the unknown and of invention of the new, in sciences, philosophy and arts. Further than the identification of the places of Kant’s works, where the Baconian theme finds explicit echo and development, the proposal also comprises a correlated interpretation of some other steps of the main works of the philosopher where the issue of the possibility of the knowledge of the new and unknown is assumed and discussed within the program of critical philosophy itself, which thus is revealed as a transcendental Heuristics