Subject: Philosophy Book Title: Kant and the Sciences
Kant and the Sciences
Watkins, Eric
(Editor), Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic University
Print publication date: 2001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513305-9
doi:10.1093/0195133056.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513305-9
doi:10.1093/0195133056.001.0001
Abstract:
Kant’s contributions to the central problems of philosophy — metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics — have received considerable attention. What is far less studied is his interest in the sciences. This book reveals the deep unity of Kant’s conception of science as it bears on the particular sciences of his day (such as physics, chemistry, anthropology, history, psychology, and biology), and on his conception of philosophy’s function with respect to them. This collection of twelve essays consider different aspects of Kant’s conception of science.
Keywords: Kant, science, philosophy, philosophy of science, German philosophy, history of philosophy, Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, Kantian
Keywords: Kant, science, philosophy, philosophy of science, German philosophy, history of philosophy, Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, Kantian
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Kant's Teachers in the Exact Sciences
2. Kant on Science and Common Knowledge
3. Matter and Motion in the Metaphysical Foundations and the First Critique
4. Kant on Rational Cosmology
5. Kant's Dynamics
6. Kant's Mechanical Determination of Matter in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
7. Kant's Justification of the Laws of Mechanics
8. Kant on Empirical Psychology
9. Kant on the Scientific Status of Psychology, Anthropology, and History
10. Kant's Theory of Matter and His Views on Chemistry
11. Kant on Understanding Organisms as Natural Purposes
12. Organisms and the Unity of Science
Index
doi:10.1093/0195133056.001.0001
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