The Determinate World : : Kant and Helmholtz on the Physical Meaning of Geometry / / David Hyder.
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 “complete...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Backmatter