Reality and Impenetrability in Kant's Philosophy of Nature (Studies in Philosophy (New York, N.Y.).)

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. Ch. 1. Kant's Critical Views Concerning The Category Of Reality. 1. Reality And Real Opposition. 2. Reality And Sensation. 3. Intensive Magnitude. 4. Reality And Negation. 5. Intensive Magnitudes And Causal Powers. 6. Reality And Real Opposition, Revisited -- Ch. 2. Inner Determinations And Relations. 1. The Priority Of Inner Determinations. 2. Inner Determinations: Absolute And Comparative. 3. Things In Themselves -- Ch. 3. Dynamical And Mechanistic Conceptions Of Impenetrability. 1. Explanatory Projects And Primary Qualities. 2. Mechanical And Dynamical Conceptions: Background. 3. The Incompressibility Of Matter. 4. The Interaction Of Bodies. 5. Conceiving Matter According To Its Inner Determinations. 6. The Mechanistic View: Kant's Elaborations And Objections. 7. The Prima Facie Advantages Of The Mechanistic Approach. 8. Comprehending The Possibility Of A Natural Force. 9. Mechanistic Explanation And Action At A Distance. 10. The Anticipations And The Dynamics Daniel Warren. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 95-96) And Index. The doctrine concerning the categories of quality (reality, negation and limitation), as expressed in the "Analytic," is particularly obscure.