Kant and the Laws of Nature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Massimi, Michela

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Laws of nature play a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy and are crucial to understanding his philosophy of science in particular. In this volume of new essays, the first systematic investigation of its kind, a distinguished team of scholars explores Kant's views on the laws of nature in the physical and life sciences. Their essays focus particularly on the laws of physics and biology, and consider topics including the separation in Kant's treatment of the physical and life sciences, the relation between universal and empirical laws of nature, and the role of reason and the understanding in imposing order and lawful unity upon nature. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of Kant's philosophy of science, and to historians and philosophers of science more generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108139137
• Artikelnr.: 47883546

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Lawfulness of Nature: 1. Kant on the unity and
diversity of laws Eric Watkins; 2. On universality, necessity, and law in
general Karl Ameriks; 3. Imperfect knowledge of nature: Kant, Hume and laws
of nature Paul Guyer; Part II. The Systematicity of Nature: 4. Why must we
presuppose the systematicity of nature? Hannah Ginsborg; 5. Empirical
scientific investigation and the ideas of reason Rachel Zuckert; 6. Kant's
transcendental principle of purposiveness and the 'maxim of the lawfulness
of empirical laws' Thomas Teufel; Part III. Nomic Necessity and the
Metaphysics of Nature: 7. Kant's necessitation account of laws and the
nature of natures James Messina; 8. Grounds, modality, and nomic necessity
in the critical Kant Michela Massimi; 9. Kant on mathematical force laws
Daniel Warren; Part IV. Laws in Physics: 10. Kant's conception of causal
necessity and its legacy Michael Friedman; 11. Metaphysical foundations of
neoclassical mechanics Marius Stan; Part V. Laws in Biology: 12. Laws in
biology and unity of nature Angela Breitenbach; 13. The building forces of
nature and Kant's teleology of the living Catherine Wilson.