Kant and Popper. The affmity between the philosophy of Kant and the
philosophy of Karl Popper has often been noted, and most decisively in
Popper's own reflections on his thought. But in this work before us,
Sergio Fernandes has given a cogent, comprehensive, and challenging
investigation of Kant which differs from what we may call Popper's Kant
while nevertheless showing Kant as very much a precursor of Popper. The
investigation is directly conceptual, although Fernandes has also
contributed to a novel historical understanding of Kant in his
reinterpretation; the novelty is the genuine result of meticulous study
of texts and commentators, characterized by the author's thorough
command of the epistemological issues in the philosophy of science in
the 20th century as much as by his mastery of the Kantian themes of the
18th. Naturally, we may wish to understand whether Kant is relevant to
Popper's philosophy of knowledge, how Popper has understood Kant, and to
what extent the Popperian Kant has systematically or historically been
of influence on later philosophy of science, as seen by Popper or not.