Kant and Philosophy of Science Today
Kant and Philosophy of Science Today
Editor:
Michela Massimi, University College London
Michela Massimi, Margaret Morrison, Thomas Ryckman, Roberto Torretti, Michael Friedman, Hasok Chang, Daniel Sutherland, Carl Posy
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Published:
January 2009
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Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780521748513
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What good is Kant's philosophy for current philosophy of science? There has been an increasing interest in Kant and philosophy of science in the past twenty years. Through the reconstruction of a variety of Kantian legacies in the development of nineteenth and twentieth century physics and mathematics, this edited volume explores the relevance that Kant's philosophy still has for current debates in philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of physics.
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- Published: January 2009
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780521748513
- Length: 216 pages
- Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 12 mm
- Weight: 0.31kg
- Availability: Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- 1. Why there are no ready-made phenomena: what philosophers of science should learn from Kant Michela Massimi
- 2. Reduction, unity, and the nature of science: Kant's legacy? Margaret Morrison
- 3. Invariance principles as regulative ideals: from Wigner to Hilbert Thomas Ryckman
- 4. Objectivity: a Kantian perspective Roberto Torretti
- 5. Einstein, Kant, and the a priori Michael Friedman
- 6. Contingent transcendental arguments for metaphysical principles Hasok Chang
- 7. Arithmetic from Kant to Frege: numbers, pure units, and the limits of conceptual representation Daniel Sutherland
- 8. Intuition and infinity: a Kantian theme with echoes in the foundations of mathematics Carl Posy
- References.
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