Kant and the Exact Sciences

by Lawrence M. Friedman and Michael Friedman

Book Overview

Kant sought throughout his life to provide a philosophy adequate to the sciences of his time--especially Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics. In this new book, Michael Friedman argues that Kant's continuing efforts to find a metaphysics that could provide a foundation for the sciences is of the utmost importance in understanding the development of his philosophical thought from its earliest beginnings in the thesis of 1747, through the Critique...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674500369
• ISBN13: 9780674500365
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"