03399nam 2200709Ia 450 991077856450332120230721023120.01-282-71672-797866127167203-11-021720-110.1515/9783110217209(CKB)1000000000807896(EBL)476086(OCoLC)560705912(SSID)ssj0000336642(PQKBManifestationID)11258447(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336642(PQKBWorkID)10283940(PQKB)11107827(MiAaPQ)EBC476086(DE-B1597)36390(OCoLC)979906247(OCoLC)987949624(OCoLC)992489539(DE-B1597)9783110217209(Au-PeEL)EBL476086(CaPaEBR)ebr10348558(CaONFJC)MIL271672(EXLCZ)99100000000080789620090901d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe determinate world[electronic resource] Kant and Helmholtz on the physical meaning of geometry /by David HyderBerlin ;New York Walter de Gruyter20091 online resource (238 p.)Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie,0344-8142 ;Bd. 69Description based upon print version of record.3-11-048157-X 3-11-018391-9 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Empirical Determination of Physical Concepts in Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science -- 3. Helmholtz on the Comprehension of Nature -- 4. Colour-theory and Manifolds -- 5. The Road to Empirical Geometry -- 6. Helmholtz on Geometry, 1868 - 1878 -- 7. Conclusion -- BackmatterThis book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz's work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtz's Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature "completely comprehensible", which implies that all physical magnitudes must be relations among empirically given phenomena. This conviction eventually forced Helmholtz to explain how geometry itself could be so construed. Hyder shows how Helmholtz answered this question by drawing on the theory of magnitudes developed in his research on the colour-space. He argues against the dominant interpretation of Helmholtz's work by suggesting that for the latter, it is less the inductive character of geometry that makes it empirical, and rather the regulative requirement that the system of natural science be empirically closed.Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ;Bd. 69.GeometryPhilosophyHelmholtz, Hermann von.Kant, Immanuel.philosophy of science.GeometryPhilosophy.516516.001CF 5017rvkHyder David Jalal1964-1466023MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778564503321The determinate world3756462UNINA