Reality and Impenetrability in Kant's Philosophy of Nature / Edition 1

by Daniel Warren

Overview

This book highlights Kant's fundamental contrast between the mechanistic and dynamical conceptions of matter, which is central to his views about the foundations of physics, and is best understood in terms of the contrast between objects of sensibility and things in themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815340546
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/24/2001
Series:	Studies in Philosophy
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel Warren is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Kant’s Critical Views Concerning the Category of Reality; Chapter 2 Inner Determinations and Relations; Chapter 3 Dynamical and Mechanistic Conceptions of Impenetrability;

Editorial Reviews

"[Warren has] produced a gem of a dissertation, combining textual sensitivity with philosophical subtlety in pursuing connections between several important issues in Kant's natural philosophy and metaphysics." — Eric Watson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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