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The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science.
Title:
The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science.
Author:
Friedman, Michael.
ISBN:
9780262273268
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (377 pages)
Contents:
I Editors' Introduction -- II Kant and Naturphilosophie -- III Nature Is the Poetry of Mind, or How Schelling Solved Goethe's Kantian Problems -- IV Kant-Naturphilosophie-Electromagnetism -- V Extending Kant:The Origins and Nature of Jakob Friedrich Fries's Philosophy of Science -- VI Kant, Fries, and the Expanding Universe of Science -- VII Kant, Helmholtz, and the Meaning of Empiricism -- VIII Operationalizing Kant: Manifolds, Models, and Mathematics in Helmholtz's Theories of Perception -- IX "The Fact of Science" and Critique of Knowledge: Exact Science as Problem and Resource in Marburg Neo-Kantianism -- X Kantianism and Realism: Alois Riehl (and Moritz Schlick) -- XI Critical Realism, Critical Idealism, and Critical Common-Sensism: The School and World Philosophies of Riehl, Cohen, and Peirce -- XII Poincaré's Circularity Arguments for Mathematical Intuition -- XIII Poincaré-Between Physics and Philosophy -- XIV Images and Conventions: Kantianism, Empiricism, and Conventionalism in Hertz's and Poincaré's Philosophies of Space and Mechanics -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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