Kant's Construction of Nature : a reading of the metaphysical foundations of natural science / Michael Friedman.

Cover; Kant's Construction of Nature; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction: The place of the Metaphysical Foundations in the critical system; The Metaphysical Foundations and the Critique of Pure Reason; Kant, Newton, and Leibniz; Kant on mathematics and metaphysics; Chapter OnePhoronomy; 1 Matter as the movable in space; 2 Motion (and rest) as an enduring state; 3 Motion as a magnitude; 4 The construction of motion as a magnitude; 5 Kant's principle of the relativity of motion; 6 Mathematical and empirical motion.

7 Motion and the categories of quantityChapter Two Dynamics; 8 The place of the Dynamics within the Metaphysical Foundations; 9 Matter as the movable in so far as it fills a space; 10 Repulsive force; 11 Kant, Lambert, and solidity; 12 Matter as an originally fluid and elastic medium; 13 Material substance as infinitely divisible; 14 Matter, motion, and the mathematical antinomies; 15 From repulsion to attraction; 16 Quantity of matter and the two fundamental forces; 17 True and apparent attraction: aether, light, and cosmos; 18 Original attraction as immediate and universal.

19 The dynamical theory of matter and mathematical construction20 The dynamical theory of matter, the mechanical philosophy, and chemistry; 21 The dynamical theory of matter and the categories of quality; Chapter Three Mechanics; 22 Moving force and the communication of motion; 23 Quantity of matter and quantity of motion; 24 Estimating quantity of matter; 25 Material substance and the conservation of matter; 26 Inertia; 27 Action and reaction; 28 Moving force, quantity of matter, and the laws of mechanics; 29 Continuity, time determination, and the categories of relation.

Chapter Four Phenomenology30 The movable as an object of experience; 31 Kant, Lambert, and phenomenology; 32 Reconsidering the relativity of motion; 33 Determining true circular motion; 34 Reducing all motion and rest to absolute space; Technical note: inertial frames and Kantian absolute space; 35 Phenomenology and the dynamical theory of matter; 36 Reason, the empirical concept of matter, and the categories of modality; Conclusion: The complementary perspectives of the Metaphysical Foundations and the first Critique; General and special metaphysics; Inner and outer sense.

The self and natureBibliography; Index.

Develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-616) and index.

English.

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