Kant and philosophy of science today
By: edited by Michela Massimi.
Contributors: Massimi, Michela.
Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy supplements -- 63; Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement -- 63.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521748513; 9780521735445
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804; Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804 -- Influence; Science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204).
Table of contents: title: Why there are no ready-made phenomena : what philsosophers of science should learn from Kant / Michela Massimi; title: Reduction, unity, and the nature of science : Kant's legacy? / Margaret Morrison; title: Invariance principles as regulative ideals : from Wigner to Hilbert / Thomas Ryckman; title: Objectivity : a Kantian perspective / Roberto Torretti; title: Einstein, Kant, and the a priori / Michael Friedman; title: Contingent transcendental arguments for metaphysical principles / Hasok Chang; title: Arithmetic from Kant to Frege : numbers, pure units, and the limits of conceptual representation / Daniel Sutherland; title: Intuition and infinity : a Kantian theme with echoes in the foundations of mathematics / Carl Posy.