Kant's Construction of Nature

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-51545-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 646 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 921 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedman, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Friedman, Michael
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 University Press, 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 University Press, 2004) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (with Richard Creath, Cambridge University Press, 2007).