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Informationen zum Autor Michael Friedman is Frederick P. Rhemus Family Professor of Humanities, Director of the Patrick Suppes Center for the History and Philosophy of Science and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. His more recent publications include Reconsidering Logical Positivism (Cambridge, 1999), A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (2000) and Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (2001). Friedman is the editor and translator of Immanuel Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Cambridge, 2004) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (with Richard Creath, Cambridge, 2007). Klappentext This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole. Zusammenfassung This book develops a new reading of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science! reconstructing his main argument in clear detail. Michael Friedman articulates a radically new perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole and convincingly demonstrates the importance of eighteenth-century science and Isaac Newton's legacy for Kant and modern philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: the place of the Metaphysical Foundations in the critical system; 1. Phoronomy; 2. Dynamics; 3. Mechanics; 4. Phenomenology; Conclusion: the complementary perspectives of the Metaphysical Foundations and the first Critique.
