Kant and the sciences / edited by Eric Watkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watkins, Eric, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Contributions in science.

Kant, Immanuel.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study aims to reveal the deep unity of Kant's conception of science as it bears on the particular sciences of his day and on his conception of philosophy's function with respect to these sciences.

Contents:

Kant's teachers in the exact sciences / Manfred Kuehn

Kant on science and common knowledge / Karl Ameriks

Matter and motion in the Metaphysical foundations and the first Critique: the empirical concept of matter and the categories / Michael Friedman

Kant on rational cosmology / Eric Watkins

Kant's dynamics / Daniel Warren

Kant's mechanical determinations of matter in the Metaphysical foundation of natural science / Martin Carrier

Kant's justification of the laws of mechanics / Eric Watkins

Kant on empirical psychology: how not to investigate the human mind / Thomas Sturm

Kant on the scientific status of psychology, anthropology, and history / Rudolf A. Makkreel

Kant's theory of matter and his views on chemistry / Martin Carrier

Kant on understanding organisms as natural purposes / Hannah Ginsborg

Organisms and the unity of science / Paul Guyer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-53523-7

9786610535231

0-19-803049-5

OCLC:

123129984