The determinate world : Kant and Helmholtz on the physical meaning of geometry /
This book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz's work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtz's Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
©2009.
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Collection: | Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ;
Bd. 69. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The empirical determination of physical concepts in Kant's Metaphysical foundations of natural science
- 3. Helmholtz on the comprehension of nature
- 4. Colour-theory and manifolds
- 5. The road to empirical geometry
- 6. Helmholtz on geometry, 1868-1878
- 7. Conclusion.