This study is part of an integrated landscape analysis at Serra do Mar State Park – Picinguaba Nucleous, at Ubatuba, São Paulo State, based on the ecodynamics studies of Tricart (1977), the dynamic cartography of Journaux (1985) and the geosystemic approach of Bertrand and Bertrand (2002). Human impacts on natural landscapes were studied under three approach levels: terrain shape, processes and superficial deposits. The identification of anthroposoils is expected to bring indicators of man induced transformations of the landscape physiology and thus contribute to the understanding of Technogen. The applied methodology is based on remote sensing (Landsat 7-ETM+) to map actual land use and vegetation cover through image classification and on GIS geomorphological mapping with 30m grid DEM (refined from SRTM-90m data by kriging interpolation) and derived products, as slope angle, terrain curvature and others. The resulting layers are integrated with environmental variables towards the identification and the mapping of altered deposits. This methodology will be completed with the identification of deposits (Fanning and Fanning, 1998) and with the soil classification according to EMBRAPA (1999) and Curcio et al (2004). The study will be evaluated in field work and the final results shall further support a conservation plan for the area.

The externalist interpretation of Kant allows for a ratumal reconstruction of what is fundamental to transcendental idealism: action. Kant resorts to action several times in the Critique of Pure Reason. The very notion of "synthesis," which plays a vital role in his philosophy, is presented as a Handlung. The externalist interpretation endeavours to expiam what Kant means by action in those contexts so as to make philosophical sense of Kant's thought and at the same time to prevent it from being turned into a flawed internalism. Whereas internalism struggles to present synthesis as a mental act that is as private as thinking quietly, or even as an unconscious activity, externalism shows that, according to Kant, human knowledge depends on the ability to carry out observable actions that involve human body in a very particular way. In this article, externalism will be vindiicated in relaticm to (1) the foundations of Kant's conception of figurative synthesis of transcendental imagmation, and (2) the nature of transcendental esquemata in his critical speculative philosophy.