The Delicate Frontier Between Schematism and Reflection

Jean Petitot pioneered the renewal of the transcendental in contemporary science. In his seminal work on morphogenesis he defends the original idea that thanks to morphodynamical models the Kantian Third critique may be recasted in terms of the first one. In this contribution, tracking the afterlives of the epigenetic landscape in the evolution from catastrophe theory to semiophysics, and showing how they play an analogical role in mediating between theory and experience, I defend the idea that not all reflective judgments can be schematized, and that analogy cannot be suppressed from morphogenetical theorizing.