Marcel Chelba - Preliminaries for a Pure Epistemological Interpretation of the Antinomy of Pure Reason (I+II)

In this paper, I develop a stereoperspectival epistemological interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, focusing on the antinomy of pure reason as the central matrix of his critical philosophy. My purpose is to show that Kant’s method is not only analytical but conciliatory—a “science of peace” between conflicting standpoints of reason. I propose the concept of stereoperspectival epistemology as a reformulation of Kant’s dualism between the empirical and transcendental uses of reason. Just as stereoscopic vision produces depth through the synthesis of two distinct visual perspectives, knowledge itself arises through the interplay of two irreducible yet complementary standpoints: empirical and transcendental, analytic and synthetic, phenomenal and noumenal. This model offers a new key for understanding Kant’s transcendental logic as a logic of reconciliation, rather than contradiction. Moreover, I argue that Kant’s transcendental aesthetics anticipates the epistemological framework of modern physics, where uncertainty and probability function as transcendental certainties. Quantum mechanics, for instance, implicitly confirms Kant’s insight that we can know only what our cognitive structures allow us to project into phenomena. Ultimately, I interpret Kant’s critical philosophy as an attempt to rehabilitate metaphysics as a stereoperspectival epistemology—a self-referential science of knowledge that reconciles the empirical rigor of science with the transcendental depth of philosophy. Keywords: Kant, stereoperspectival epistemology, antinomy of pure reason, transcendental logic, metaphysics and modern physics.