Michael Friedman

Kant's Construction of Nature

A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

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Produktbeschreibung

This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 646
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1074g
• ISBN-13: 9780521198394
• ISBN-10: 0521198399
• Artikelnr.: 36617632

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.