Kant and philosophy of science today /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Massimi, Michela
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 63.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Why there are no ready-made phenomena: what philsosophers of science should learn from Kant / Michela Massini
  • Reduction, unity, and the nature of science: Kant's leagcy / Margaret Morrison
  • Invariance principles as regulative ideals: from Wigner to Hilbert / Thomas Ryckman
  • Objectivity: a Kantian perspective / Roberto Torretti
  • Einstein, Kant, and the a priori / Michael Friedman
  • Contingent transcendental arguments for metaphysical principles / Hasok Chang
  • Arithmetic from Kant to Frege: numbers, pure units, and the limits of conceptual representation / Daniel Sutherland
  • Intuition and infinity: a Kantian theme with echoes in the foundations of mathematics / Carl Posy.