Kant and Philosophy of Science Today

Explores what relevance Kant's philosophy has in current issues surrounding the philosophy of science, mathematics and physics.

Michela Massimi (Edited by)

9780521748513, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 20 November 2008

216 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 1.2 cm, 0.31 kg

What good is Kant's philosophy for current philosophy of science? There has been an increasing interest in Kant and philosophy of science in the past twenty years. Through the reconstruction of a variety of Kantian legacies in the development of nineteenth and twentieth century physics and mathematics, this edited volume explores the relevance that Kant's philosophy still has for current debates in philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of physics.

Preface
List of contributors
1. Why there are no ready-made phenomena: what philosophers of science should learn from Kant Michela Massimi
2. Reduction, unity, and the nature of science: Kant's legacy? Margaret Morrison
3. Invariance principles as regulative ideals: from Wigner to Hilbert Thomas Ryckman
4. Objectivity: a Kantian perspective Roberto Torretti
5. Einstein, Kant, and the a priori Michael Friedman
6. Contingent transcendental arguments for metaphysical principles Hasok Chang
7. Arithmetic from Kant to Frege: numbers, pure units, and the limits of conceptual representation Daniel Sutherland
8. Intuition and infinity: a Kantian theme with echoes in the foundations of mathematics Carl Posy
References.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of science [PDA], Philosophy [HP]