1995•The Philosophical ReviewRequires access
Kant and the Exact Sciences.
William Harper, Michael H. Friedman
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Abstract
Introduction: metaphysics and exact science in the evolution of Kant's thought. Part 1 The critical period: geometry concepts and intuitions in the mathematical sciences metaphysical foundations of Newtonian science space, the understanding, and the law of gravitation - Prolegomena 38. Part 2 The opus postumum: transition from the metaphysical foundations of natural science to physics - the transition project and the metaphysical foundations, the transition project and reflective judgement, the chemical revolution, the Aether-deduction, the fate of the Aether-deduction.