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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Cерия: Философия</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2302</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8900</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">52783</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2302-2026-30-3-766-781</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">SFWKKD</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THE PHILOSOPHY OF ERNST CASSIRER</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ФИЛОСОФИЯ ЭРНСТА КАССИРЕРА</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">E. Cassirer’s Transcendental Project: The Metaphysics of Scientific Experience</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Трансцендентальный проект Э. Кассирера: метафизика научного опыта</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2884-7719</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">4890-8663</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Katrechko</surname><given-names>Sergey L.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Катречко</surname><given-names>Сергей Леонидович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат философских наук, доцент, доцент, философский факультет</p></bio><email>skatrechko1@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">State Academic University of the Humanities</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Государственный академический гуманитарный университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-10-14" publication-format="electronic"><day>14</day><month>10</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>30</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">THE PHILOSOPHY OF ERNST CASSIRER</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ФИЛОСОФИЯ ЭРНСТА КАССИРЕРА</issue-title><fpage>766</fpage><lpage>781</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-10-14"><day>14</day><month>10</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2026, Katrechko S.L.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2026, Катречко С.Л.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Katrechko S.L.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Катречко С.Л.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/52783">https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/52783</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The aim of the research is to reconstruct transcendental project of E. Cassirer, his metaphysics of scientific experience. To this end, the study first provides a brief outline of Kant’s transcendental philosophy (transcendentalism), then discusses the Neo-Kantian version of transcendentalism, i.e., Neo-Kantian modifications of the concept of experience and a priori (primarily in the person of H. Cohen (see his “Kant’s Theory of Experience”), and describes Cohen’s genetic concept of cognition. Then a reconstruction (explication) of Cassirer’s own version of transcendentalism is given and two of his main “transcendental” innovations are analyzed: the theory of [a priori] invariants and the “functional” doctrine of a thing (substance vs. function). Analysis of the latter shows that the “functional” doctrine of a thing (in its various modifications), on the one hand, is a development of Kant’s doctrine of the transcendental object, and, on the other hand, it is a precursor and one of the variants of modern structuralism (structural realism).</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Цель исследования - реконструкция трансцендентального проекта Э. Кассирера, его метафизики научного опыта. Для этого в работе сначала дается краткий абрис кантовской трансцендентальной философии, затем обсуждается неокантианская версия трансцендентализма, т.е. неокантиансая модификация понятия опыта и a priori (прежде всего, в лице Г. Когена - см. его «Теорию опыта Канта»), и описывается когеновская генетическая концепция познания, а затем дается реконструкция собственно кассиреровской версии трансцендентализма и анализируются две его основные «трансцендентальные» инновации: теория априорных инвариантов и функциональная концепция вещи (субстанция vs функция). Анализ последней из них показывает, что она в ее разных модификациях, с одной стороны, является развитием кантовского учения о трансцендентальном предмете, а с другой стороны, выступает предтечей и одним из вариантов современного структурализма (структурного реализма).</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>transcendental philosophy</kwd><kwd>Neo-Kantianism</kwd><kwd>a priori</kwd><kwd>invariant</kwd><kwd>function</kwd><kwd>transcendental object</kwd><kwd>structural realism</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>трансцендентальная философия</kwd><kwd>неокантианство</kwd><kwd>a priori</kwd><kwd>инвариант</kwd><kwd>функция</kwd><kwd>трансцендентальный предмет</kwd><kwd>структурный реализм</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group><fn xml:lang="ru"><p>* Стэнфордский университет имеет статус организации, деятельность которой признана нежелательной на территории Российской Федерации.</p>&#13;
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