The determinate world
Subtitle: Kant and Helmholtz on the physical meaning of geometry
By: by David Hyder.
Series: Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie -- Bd. 69
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9783110183917
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804; Helmholtz, Hermann von, -- 1821-1894; Geometry -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The empirical determination of physical concepts in Kant; title: Metaphysical foundations of natural science; title: Conceptual determination; title: Phenomenology and the determination of motion; title: Phoronomy; title: Dynamics; title: Mechanics; title: Regulative and constitutive principles; title: The parallelogram law; title: Helmholtz on the comprehension of nature; title: Helmholtz's arguments for force centrality in the conservation of energy; title: The philosophical argument; title: The mathematical argument; title: Helmholtz's later criticisms of his determinacy argument; title: Empirical determinacy and geometry; title: Colour-theory and manifolds; title: Newton's barycentric colour-wheel; title: Helmholtz's 1852 Ber die theorie der zusammengesetzten farbena; title: Gramanna's 1853 zur theorie der farbenmischung; title: Helmholtz's 1855 ber die zusammensetzung von spectralfarbena; title: Maxwell's 1855 experiments on colour; title: The road to empirical geometry; title: Phase 1; title: Phase 2; title: Phase 3; title: Helmholtz on geometry, 1868-1878; title: The four papers; title: The papers of 1868; title: Ber den ursprung und bedeutung der geometrischen axiome; title: Ber den ursprung und sinn der geometrischen stzea.