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This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond.
List of contents
Editors's Introduction: Neo-Kantianism and the Sciences
Part 1: Mathematics 1. (Neo-)Kantian Foundation of Foundatians: The Göttingen Case
Volker Peckhaus 2. Cassirer on the Concept of Number: A Neo-Kantian Perspective on Dedekindian Abstraction
Francesca Biagioli 3. From Magnitudes to Real Numbers. Cantor and Dedekind's Number Extensions and Their Reception in the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism
Daniel Koenig Part 2: Physics 4. Clouds over Classical Physics? Neo-Kantian Perspectives on Kant's Ideal of Physics as the Fundamental Empirical Science
Helmut Pulte 5. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg School and the Problem of Individuality in Physics
Marco Giovanelli 6. Hermann von Helmholtz on the Unification of Science
Gregor Schiemann Part 3: Chemistry and Technology 7. Physical and Chemical Atomism. Helmholtz and Cassirer on Chemical Classifications
Rudolf Meer 8. Cassirer on the Construction of Concepts in Chemistry
Henny Blomme 9. Technology in Neo-Kantianism between Theory and Practice. A First Insight
Tim-Florian Steinbach Part 4: Biology 10. Philosophy of Biology in Neo-Kantianism
Georg Toepfer 11. The Impact of Kantian Philosophy on Organic Form: Teleology, Organism, and Material Properties in Early Twentieth Century Morphology
Marco Tamborini 12. From Kant to Holism: The Decline of Neo-Kantianism and the Rise of Theoretical Biology
Jan Baedke, Alexander Böhm, and Stefan Reiners-Selbach Part 5: Psychology 13. The Problem of Psychology in Neo-Kantianism: On the Relevance of Richard Hönigswald
Christian Krijnen 14. Descriptive or Reconstructive Psychology. On Natorp's Critique of Dilthey
Hans-Ulrich Lessing Part 6: The Context of other 'Scientific Philosophies' 15. Systems after the Systems - 'Cosmic' Texts and Integrative Practices in Neo-Kantian Contexts
Paul Ziche 16. 'Critique de la Science' in France: Conventionalism or/and Neo-Kantianism in Geometry?
Gerhard Heinzmann 17. Factum and Region: Neo-Kantian and Phenomenological Paradigms for a Philosophy of Science
Sebastian Luft
About the author
Helmut Pulte is Chair of Philosophy and History of Science at Ruhr-University Bochum and Co-editor in chief of the
Journal for General Philosophy of Science. He authored (inter alia)
Axiomatik und Empirie (2005) and co-edited Hermann von Helmholtz,
Gesammelte Philosophische und Populärwissenschaftliche Schriften (3 vols., 2017) as well as
The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe (3 vols., 2019).
Jan Baedke is Junior Professor at the Institute for Philosophy I, Ruhr-University Bochum. He is author of
Above the Gene, Beyond Biology: Toward a Philosophy of Epigenetics (2018) and PI of the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded research group 'ROTO' ('The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical, and Social Dimensions').
Daniel Koenig is a Research assistant in History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz. He defended his PhD thesis at the Mathematics Department of the University of Siegen. His research is on Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of mathematics and his philosophy of culture in general. He co-edited a volume
Mathematik in der Tradition des Neukantianismus (2019).
Gregor Nickel is Professor for functional analysis and philosophy of mathematics at Siegen University. He obtained his PhD in pure mathematics in Tübingen. His publications include mathematical research papers and philosophical papers on Nicolas of Cusa. He edited a volume of Kant's contributions to the philosophy of mathematics and volumes on interactions between mathematics and society.
Summary
This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond.
