
Kant's Construction of Nature
A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
Michael Friedman(Autor*in)
Cambridge University Press
Erschienen am 17. Januar 2013
Buch
Hardcover
646 Seiten
978-0-521-19839-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is one of the most difficult but also most important of Kant's works. Published in 1786 between the first (1781) and second (1787) editions of the Critique of Pure Reason, the Metaphysical Foundations occupies a central place in the development of Kant's philosophy, but has so far attracted relatively little attention compared with other works of Kant's critical period. Michael Friedman's book develops a new and complete reading of this work and reconstructs Kant's main argument clearly and in great detail, explaining its relationship to both Newton's Principia and eighteenth-century scientific thinkers such as Euler and Lambert. By situating Kant's text relative to his pre-critical writings on metaphysics and natural philosophy and, in particular, to the changes Kant made in the second edition of the Critique, Friedman articulates a radically new perspective on the meaning and development of the critical philosophy as a whole.
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Sprache
Englisch
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Cambridge
Großbritannien
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Für Beruf und Forschung
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Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 39 mm
Gewicht
1072 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-19839-4 (9780521198394)
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Person
Michael Friedman is Frederick P. Rhemus Family Professor of Humanities, Director of the Patrick Suppes Center for the History and Philosophy of Science and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. His more recent publications include Reconsidering Logical Positivism (Cambridge, 1999), A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (2000) and Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (2001). Friedman is the editor and translator of Immanuel Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Cambridge, 2004) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (with Richard Creath, Cambridge, 2007).
Inhalt
Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: the place of the Metaphysical Foundations in the critical system; 1. Phoronomy; 2. Dynamics; 3. Mechanics; 4. Phenomenology; Conclusion: the complementary perspectives of the Metaphysical Foundations and the first Critique.