KANT AND THE EXACT SCIENCES by Michael Friedman ( 9780674500365 )

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KANT AND THE EXACT SCIENCES

By:

Michael Friedman

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 January, 1995

Pages:

378

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This text argues that Kant's continuing efforts to find a metaphysics that could provide a foundation for the sciences is vital for understanding the development of his philosophical thought, from its earliest beginnings in the thesis of 1747 to his last unpublished writings on the "Opus postumum".

Synopsis:

Immanuel Kant sought throughout his life to provide a philosophy adequate to the sciences of his time - especially Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics. In this book, Michael Friedman argues that Kant's continuing efforts to find a metaphysics that could provide a foundation for the sciences is of the utmost importance for understanding the development of his philosophical thought, from its earliest beginnings in the thesis of 1747, through the "Critique of Pure Reason" (1781), to his last unpublished writings on the "Opus postumum". Michael Friedman has also written "Foundations of Space-Time Theories", which won the Matchette Prize of the American Philosophical Association.

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