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The Kantian legacy in nineteenth-century science / Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
- Dibner Institute for the history of science and technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy--History--19th century.
- Science.
- Philosophy and science--History--19th century.
- Philosophy and science.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-358) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-29403-6
- 1-282-09719-9
- 9786612097195
- 0-262-27326-8
- 1-4294-7730-X
- OCLC:
- 145463990
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