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Author Plaass, Peter.

Title Kant's theory of natural science / Peter Plaass ; translation, analytic introduction, and commentary by Alfred E. and Maria G. Miller ; with an introductory essay by Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
Published Dordrecht [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1994]
©1994

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Description xvi, 367 pages ; 23 cm
Series Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 159
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 159
Summary Plaass's treatise stood at the beginning of a renewed wave of scholarship regarding Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (MF). Plaass argues that the MF represents an integral step in Kant's development between the two editions of the Critique of Pure Reason. The MF repeats the "Copernican turn," using the conditions of subjectivity to derive the metaphysical determinations of "matter" as the object of natural science with the new method called "metaphysical construction," which simultaneously grounds the mathematizability of physics. The translators provide background and analysis of Plaass's work, extend it to include the body of the MF and offer a variation on the analysis of the relationship between mathematics and metaphysics in the MF. They discuss its relevance for contemporary paradigm-dependency approaches to the philosophy of science and for philosophical hermeneutics
Analysis Philosophy Related to Science
Notes Bibliography: p333-340. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-340) and index
Notes Translated from the German
Boston studies in the philosophy of science no:159 0068-0346
Subject Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft.
Science -- Philosophy.
Author Miller, Alfred E., 1930-
Miller, Maria G.
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007.
LC no. 94005203
ISBN 0792327500