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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452024203321

Titolo

The Kantian legacy in nineteenth-century science [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006

ISBN

0-262-29403-6

1-282-09719-9

9786612097195

0-262-27326-8

1-4294-7730-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Dibner Institute for the history of science and technology

Altri autori (Persone)

FriedmanMichael <1947->

NordmannAlfred <1956->

Disciplina

501

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy - History - 19th century

Philosophy and science - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-358) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

"Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought."--Jacket.