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25 ott 2004 · Immanuel Kant was actively concerned with issues in the philosophy of natural science throughout his career. The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science presents his most mature reflections on these themes in the context of both his critical philosophy, presented in the Critique of Pure Reason, and the natural science of his time.
- Immanuel Kant
The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is written in the late 18th century, where by that time much of the mechanical physics has been laid out by scientists such as Newton, his contemporaries and predecessors, and mathematics had become so complex that left relatively little room for philosophers to contribute and difficult to catch-up and this new reality was noticeable in this book.
wissenschaften of 1786 ('Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science', hereafter MAdN) that matter and its quantity can be defined in terms of a balance of attractive and repulsive forces.2 By the middle of 1798 Kant came to regard the mathematical foundations of natural science as not
Metaphysics of Science is the philosophical study of key concepts that figure prominently in science and that, prima facie, stand in need of clarification. It is also concerned with the phenomena that correspond to these concepts. Exemplary topics within Metaphysics of Science include laws of nature, causation, dispositions, natural kinds ...
METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATURAL SCIENCE In his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (), Kant accounts for the possibility of an acting-at-a-distance gravitational force, demonstrates the in nite divisibility of matter, and derives analogues to Newtonian laws of motion. The work is his major statement in philosophy of science, and was ...
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science Immanuel Kant 2: Foundations of Dynamics greater to infinity. [This use of ‘degree’ translates what is almost the first occurrence of Grad in the original. From here on, Grad/degree will occur often; in Kant’s usage it is firmly linked to the notion of intensive magnitude [see note on page16].
21 ott 2003 · Subsections will be devoted to each of the chapters of Kant’s most influential work in philosophy of science, the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786). Kant’s basic positions on other sciences, including psychology, chemistry, and history, will be presented thereafter.
