Kant And The Exact Sciences

Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674500358
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Exact Sciences written by Michael Friedman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant sought throughout his life to provide a philosophy adequate to the sciences of his time--especially Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics. In this new book, Michael Friedman argues that Kant's continuing efforts to find a metaphysics that could provide a foundation for the sciences is of the utmost importance in understanding the development of his philosophical thought from its earliest beginnings in the thesis of 1747, through the Critique of Pure Reason, to his last unpublished writings in the Opus postumum. Previous commentators on Kant have typically minimized these efforts because the sciences in question have since been outmoded. Friedman argues that, on the contrary, Kant's philosophy is shaped by extraordinarily deep insight into the foundations of the exact sciences as he found them, and that this represents one of the greatest strengths of his philosophy. Friedman examines Kant's engagement with geometry, arithmetic and algebra, the foundations of mechanics, and the law of gravitation in Part One. He then devotes Part Two to the Opus postumum, showing how Kant's need to come to terms with developments in the physics of heat and in chemistry formed a primary motive for his projected Transition from the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science to Physics. Kant and the Exact Sciences is a book of high scholarly achievement, argued with impressive power. It represents a great advance in our understanding of Kant's philosophy of science.

Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674500365
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Exact Sciences written by Michael Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Kant's engagement with geometry, arithmetic, and algebra, the foundations of mechanics, and the law of gravitation. Shows how Kant's need to come to terms with developments in the physics of heat and in chemistry formed a primary motive for his projected Transition from the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science to Physics, and how his philosophy is shaped by extraordinary insight into the foundations of exact sciences as he found them. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Eric Watkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195133056
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Sciences written by Eric Watkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant and the Sciences aims to reveal the deep unity of Kant's conception of science as it bears on the particular sciences of his day and on his conception of philosophy's function with respect to these sciences. It brings together for the first time twelve essays by leading Kant scholars that take into account Kant's conception of a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and anthropology.

Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521198399
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Construction of Nature written by Michael Friedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole.

Author : Robert Hanna
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199285543
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant, Science, and Human Nature written by Robert Hanna and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the 'exact sciences'--- relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century.Hanna's earlier book Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (OUP 2001), explores basic conceptual and historical connections between Immanuel Kant's 18th-century Critical Philosophy and the tradition of mainstream analytic philosophy from Frege to Quine. The central topics of the analytic tradition in its early and middle periods were meaning and necessity. But the central theme of mainstream analytic philosophy after 1950 is scientific naturalism, which holds---to use WilfridSellars's apt phrase---that 'science is the measure of all things'. This type of naturalism is explicitly reductive. Kant, Science, and Human Nature has two aims, one negative and one positive. Its negative aim is to develop a Kantian critique of scientific naturalism. But its positive and more fundamentalaim is to work out the elements of a humane, realistic, and nonreductive Kantian account of the foundations of the exact sciences. According to this account, the essential properties of the natural world are directly knowable through human sense perception (empirical realism), and practical reason is both explanatorily and ontologically prior to theoretical reason (the primacy of the practical).

Author : Robert Hanna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191713965
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant, Science, and Human Nature written by Robert Hanna and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the 'exact sciences'. This book aims to work out the elements of a nonreductive Kantian account of the foundations of the exact sciences.

Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9781575862927
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Reason written by Michael Friedman and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new approach to the issue of radical scientific revolutions, or "paradigm-shifts," given prominence in the work of Thomas Kuhn. The book articulates a dynamical and historicized version of the conception of scientific a priori principles first developed by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. This approach defends the Enlightenment ideal of scientific objectivity and universality while simultaneously doing justice to the revolutionary changes within the sciences that have since undermined Kant's original defense of this ideal. Through a modified Kantian approach to epistemology and philosophy of science, this book opposes both Quinean naturalistic holism and the post-Kuhnian conceptual relativism that has dominated recent literature in science studies. Focussing on the development of "scientific philosophy" from Kant to Rudolf Carnap, along with the parallel developments taking place in the sciences during the same period, the author articulates a new dynamical conception of relativized a priori principles. This idea applied within the physical sciences aims to show that rational intersubjective consensus is intricately preserved across radical scientific revolutions or "paradigm-shifts and how this is achieved.

Author : William Bragg Ewald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198505361
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Kant to Hilbert Volume 2 written by William Bragg Ewald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume work brings together a comprehensive selection of mathematical works from the period 1707-1930. During this time the foundations of modern mathematics were laid, and From Kant to Hilbert provides an overview of the foundational work in each of the main branches of mathmeatics with narratives showing how they were linked. Now available as a separate volume.

Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262062542
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-century Science written by Michael Friedman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought.

Author : Marcus Willaschek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110847263X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics written by Marcus Willaschek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed exploration of the Transcendental Dialectic, in which Kant uncovers the sources of metaphysics in human reason.