Kant and Natorp: evolution of an epistemology concept that responded to alteration to a cognition pattern

Interpreting the critical philosophy as an epistemology project, based on the paradigm of science of the XVIII century, shall provide ample opportunities for re-discovering its content, and this approach shall give the sound criteria for assessing further neo-Kantian thought being an immediate successor of the former. At the same time, we should recognize that the Kantian reasoning with higher interpretative potential implies various ways of its advancement. As the criticism by Kant of the XVIII century attempted to restate for the first time the "natural world" in a transcendental meaning, so the neo-positivism at the first third of the XX century tried to convert the world of "natural" language to an artificial one. The conceptualizing approach by Kant and the neo-Kantians that manifested itself in perceiving the object as a way it had been preset within the setup, had been underway in the concepts of the theory of science and the post-positivism. Formulating the criticism as a search for rationality/ expedience turned to be lately the Central issue for studies that made interpretation by Kant and neo-Kantian adepts relevant for the contemporary academic philosophy.