Kant's theory of natural science. Von Maria u. Alfred E. Miller und Peter Plaass. Einleitung Carl Friedrich von Weizs�er. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 159.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, Buchr�cken ausgeblichen, sonst guter Zustand und innen sauber / dust jacket rubbed, spine faded, otherwise good condition and clean inside. - Plaass�s treatise stood at the beginning of a renewed wave of scholarship regarding Kant�s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (MF). Plaass argues that the MF represents an integral step in Kant�s development between the two editions of the Critique of Pure Reason. The MF repeats the �Copernican turn,� using the conditions of subjectivity to derive the metaphysical determinations of �matter� as the object of natural science with the new method called �metaphysical construction,� which simultaneously grounds the mathematizability of physics. The translators provide background and analysis of Plaass�s work, extend it to include the body of the MF and offer a variation on the analysis of the relationship between mathematics and metaphysics in the MF. They discuss its relevance for contemporary paradigm-dependency approaches to the philosophy of science and for philosophical hermeneutics. The book should be of interest not only to Kant specialists but also to students of the philosophy of science in general. / TABLE OF CONTENTS TRANSLATORS� PREFACE TRANSLATORS� INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY Table of Contents to introduction and Commentary Section 1. Aims and Structure of this Introduction Section 2. Central Themes of Kant�s Philosophy of Science: Metaphysics and Mathematics as the a priori Basis for Natural Science Section 3. Kant�s Assumptions and Questions as the Background for Interpreting his Philosophy Section 4. Overall Goal, Structure and Content of the MF Section 5. Metaphysical Construction: The Central Method of the MF Section 6. Plaass�s Interpretation of �Metaphysical Construction" and the Issue of �Objective Reality� in the MF Section 7. The Relation of the Empirical Part of Physics to the Pure Part Section 8. The Relevance of Kant�s Philosophy of Natural Science Today KANT�S THEORY OF NATURAL SCIENCE ACCORDING TO P. PLAASS: An Introductory Analytic Essay by C. F. von Weizs�er (1965) KANT�S THEORY OF NATURAL SCIENCE - Peter Plaass PREFACE - C. F. von Weizs�er FOREWORD - P. Plaass Table of Contents Chapter 0. Introduction Chapter 1. The Object of Natural Science: Nature Chapter 2. Doctrine and Science Proper Chapter 3. The Pure Part of Natural Science Chapter 4. The Empirical Concept of Matter Chapter 5. Pure Natural Science as Pure Doctrine of Motion Chapter 6. The Function of the Pure Part BIBLIOGRAPHY Selected Bibliography since Plaass Glossary Index. ISBN 0792327500