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Author: Daniel Warren
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1135728429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book highlights Kant's fundamental contrast between the mechanistic and dynamical conceptions of matter, which is central to his views about the foundations of physics, and is best understood in terms of the contrast between objects of sensibility and things in themselves.
Author: Daniel Warren
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780815340546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 0521198399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole.
Author: Michela Massimi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-16
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1108138659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaws of nature play a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy and are crucial to understanding his philosophy of science in particular. In this volume of new essays, the first systematic investigation of its kind, a distinguished team of scholars explores Kant's views on the laws of nature in the physical and life sciences. Their essays focus particularly on the laws of physics and biology, and consider topics including the separation in Kant's treatment of the physical and life sciences, the relation between universal and empirical laws of nature, and the role of reason and the understanding in imposing order and lawful unity upon nature. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of Kant's philosophy of science, and to historians and philosophers of science more generally.
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 1139618938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKant'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.
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780521544757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreface 1. Metaphysical foundations of phoronomy 2. Metaphysical foundations of dynamics 3. Metaphysical foundations of mechanics 4. Metaphysical foundations of phenomenology.
Author: Paul Guyer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-05
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1135015627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this updated edition of his outstanding introduction to Kant, Paul Guyer uses Kant’s central conception of autonomy as the key to his thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Kant’s life and times, Guyer introduces Kant’s metaphysics and epistemology, carefully explaining his arguments about the nature of space, time and experience in his most influential but difficult work, The Critique of Pure Reason. He offers an explanation and critique of Kant’s famous theory of transcendental idealism and shows how much of Kant’s philosophy is independent of this controversial doctrine. He then examines Kant’s moral philosophy, his celebrated ‘categorical imperative’ and his theories of duty, freedom of will and political rights. This section of the work has been substantially revised to clarify the relation between Kant’s conceptions of "internal" and "external" freedom. In his treatments of Kant’s aesthetics and teleology, Guyer focuses on their relation to human freedom and happiness. Finally, he considers Kant’s view that the development of human autonomy is the only goal that we can conceive for both natural and human history. Including a chronology, glossary, chapter summaries and up-to-date further reading, Kant, second edition is an ideal introduction to this demanding yet pivotal figure in the history of philosophy, and essential reading for all students of philosophy.
Author: Michael Bennett McNulty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-08-11
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1108476899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew essays on Kant's complex work, considering its place in his oeuvre and in the history of science.
Author: Michela Massimi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-16
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107120985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of new essays explores Kant's views on the laws of nature.
Author: Robert Hanna
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2006-10-19
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 0191536539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert 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 Wilfrid Sellars'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 fundamental aim 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).
