Kant And Contemporary Epistemology (the Western Ontario Series In Philosophy Of Science)

From the mid-1960s, after the important works by J. Hintikka, S. Körner, W. Sellars and P.F. Strawson, there has been a marked revival of Kantian epistemological thought. Against this background, featuring fruitful exchange between historical research and theoretical prospects, the main point of the book is the discussion of Kantian theory of scientific knowledge from the perspective of present-day analytical philosophy and philosophy of empirical and mathematical sciences. The main topics are the problem of __a priori__ knowledge in logic, mathematics and physics, the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, the constitution of physical objectivity and the questions of realism and truth, the Kantian conception of time, causal laws and induction, the relations between Kantian epistemological thought, relativity theory, quantum theory and some recent developments of philosophy of science. The book is addressed to research workers, specialists and scholars in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of science and history of philosophy. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Science and God: The Topology of the Kantian World....Pages 1-25 Kant and the Twentieth Century....Pages 27-46 The Origins of the A Priori....Pages 47-72 On Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics from a Present-Day Perspective....Pages 73-86 Analytic and Synthetic Judgements in Type Theory....Pages 87-99 Logic and its Place in Nature....Pages 101-113 The Constitution of Objects in Kant’s Philosophy and in Modern Physics....Pages 115-129 Kant and the Quantum Theory....Pages 131-155 The Late Kant and the Twentieth Century Physics....Pages 157-165 The Problem of Realism and the A Priori....Pages 167-173 Objectivity and Realism....Pages 175-194 On Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: Truth, Form, Matter....Pages 195-230 Kantian Argument, Conceptual Capacities, and Invulnerability....Pages 231-251 The Unity of Science and the Unity of Nature....Pages 253-272 Induction as Unification: Kant, Whewell, and Recent Developments....Pages 273-289 Causality and Causal Laws in Kant: A Critique of Michael Friedman....Pages 291-307 The Holistic Character of Kantian Intuition....Pages 309-329 Understanding Apperception Today....Pages 331-347 Kant’s Revolutionary Reconstruction of the History of Philosophy....Pages 349-360 Back Matter....Pages 361-379 From the mid-1960s, after the works by J. Hintikka, S. Koerner, W. Sellars and P.F. Strawson, there has been a marked revival of Kantian epistemological thought. Against this background, featuring fruitful exchange between historical research and theoretical prospects, the main point of this book is the discussion of Kantian theory of scientific knowledge from the perspective of present-day analytical philosophy and philosophy of empirical and mathematical sciences. The main topics are the problem of a priori knowledge in logic, mathematics and physics, the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, the constitution of physical objectivity and the questions of realism and truth, the Kantian conception of time, causal laws and induction, the relations between Kantian epistemological thought, relativity theory, quantum theory and some recent developments of philosophy of science. The book is designed for research workers, specialists and scholars in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of science and history of philosophy