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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817545103321

Autore

Friedman Michael <1947->

Titolo

Kant's construction of nature : a reading of the Metaphysical foundations of natural science / / Michael Friedman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23296-1

1-139-60963-7

1-139-61149-6

1-139-62079-7

1-283-94303-4

1-139-62451-2

1-139-60828-2

1-139-01408-0

1-139-61521-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix 624 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

113

Soggetti

Physical sciences - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.