KANT'S CONSTRUCTION OF NATURE by Michael Friedman ( 9780521198394 )

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KANT'S CONSTRUCTION OF NATURE
A READING OF THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATURAL SCIENCE

By:

Michael Friedman

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0521198399

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

17 January, 2013

Pages:

646

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This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole.

Synopsis:

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.

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4 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Fernando Gil International Prize for the Philosophy of Science 2015

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