THE RISE OF RUSSIAN NEO-KANTIANISM - VVEDENSKIJ EARLY CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY

This essay is a study of Vvedenskij's works starting from his 1888 dis sertation up to the turn of the century. I attempt to show that althou gh his explicit aim was to update Kant's philosophy of science in ligh t of developments in physics in the 19th century, Vvedenskij departed considerably from Kant's position with respect to both first philosoph y and reflection on the achievements of the natural sciences. Vvedensk ij's increasing concern with practical philosophy in the 1890s led him to correct a perceived anomaly in Kant's position by postulating a ti me in itself, an unrecognized consequence of which would be to undermi ne the apodicticity of mathematics.