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127Eckart förster and Kant's opus postumumInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 46 (2). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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121Kant on Space, the Understanding, and the Law of GravitationThe Monist 72 (2): 236-284. 1989.Section 38 of Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is of great interest. For Kant there attempts, uncharacteristically, to illustrate one of the central claims of his exceedingly abstract and general transcendental philosophy by means of a concrete example. The claim in question is stated as the conclusion of §36.
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118Kant's Construction of Nature: A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural ScienceCambridge University Press. 2013.Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is one of the most difficult but also most important of Kant's works. Published in 1786 between the first and second editions of the Critique of Pure Reason, the Metaphysical Foundations occupies a central place in the development of Kant's philosophy, but has so far attracted relatively little attention compared with other works of Kant's critical period. Michael Friedman's book develops a new and complete reading of this work and reconstructs …Read more
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105Theoretical Philosophy After 1781 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.This volume, originally published in 2002, assembles the historical sequence of writings that Kant published between 1783 and 1796 to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason of 1781. The best known of them, the Prolegomena, is often recommended to beginning students, but the other texts are also vintage Kant and are important sources for a fully rounded picture of Kant's intellectual development. As with other volumes in the series …Read more
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103On the sociology of scientific knowledge and its philosophical agendaStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 29 (2): 239-271. 1998.
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96Helmholtz’s Zeichentheorie and Schlick’s Allgemeine ErkenntnislehrePhilosophical Topics 25 (2): 19-50. 1997.
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80Transcendental Philosophy And Mathematical PhysicsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (1): 29-43. 2003.his paper explores the relationship between Kant’s views on the metaphysical foundations of Newtonian mathematical physics and his more general transcendental philosophy articulated in the Critique of pure reason. I argue that the relationship between the two positions is very close indeed and, in particular, that taking this relationship seriously can shed new light on the structure of the transcendental deduction of the categories as expounded in the second edition of the Critique.Author Keywo…Read more
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75Carnap and Weyl on the foundations of geometry and relativity theoryErkenntnis 42 (2): 247-260. 1995.
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73Book Review:Philosophical Papers Moritz Schlick, H. L. Mulder, B. F. B. van de Velde-Schlick (review)Philosophy of Science 50 (3): 498-. 1983.
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61Realism, and Modern PhysicsIn Don Ross, James Ladyman & Harold Kincaid (eds.), Scientific metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 182. 2013.
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56Kant and the Exact SciencesPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 587. 1995.This is a very important book. It has already become required reading for researchers on the relation between the exact sciences and Kant’s philosophy. The main theme is that Kant’s continuing program to find a metaphysics that could provide a foundation for the science of his day is of crucial importance to understanding the development of his philosophical thought from its earliest precritical beginnings in the thesis of 1747, right through the highwater years of the critical philosophy, to hi…Read more
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51The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science (edited book)MIT Press. 2006.Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought.
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43History and Philosophy of Science in a New KeyIsis 99 (1): 125-134. 2008.ABSTRACT This essay considers the relationship between history of science and philosophy of science from Thomas Kuhn to the present. This relationship, of course, has often been troubled, but there is now new hope for an ongoing productive interaction—due to an increasing awareness, among other things, of the mutual entanglement between the development of modern science and the development of modern philosophy on the part of both professional (historically minded) philosophers and professional h…Read more
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36A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and HeideggerOpen Court Publishing. 2000.In this insightful study of the common origins of analytic and continental philosophy, Friedman looks at how social and political events intertwined and influenced philosophy during the early twentieth century, ultimately giving rise to the two very different schools of thought. He shows how these two approaches, now practiced largely in isolation from one another, were once opposing tendencies within a common discussion. Already polarized by their philosophical disagreements, these approaches w…Read more
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34Dynamics of reason: the 1999 Kant lectures at Stanford UniversityCSLI Publications. 2001.This book introduces a new approach to the issue of radical scientific revolutions, or "paradigm-shifts," given prominence in the work of Thomas Kuhn. The book articulates a dynamical and historicized version of the conception of scientific a priori principles first developed by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. This approach defends the Enlightenment ideal of scientific objectivity and universality while simultaneously doing justice to the revolutionary changes within the sciences that have since …Read more
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34Scientific Philosophy from Helmholtz to Carnap and QuineIn R. Creath (ed.), Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Springer Verlag. pp. 1--11. 2012.The concept of a “scientific philosophy” first developed in the mid nineteenth century, as a reaction against what was viewed as the excessively speculative and metaphysical character of post-Kantian German idealism. One of the primary intellectual models of this movement was a celebrated address by Hermann von Helmholtz, “Über das Sehen des Menschen,” delivered at the dedication of a monument to Kant at Königsberg in 1855. Helmholtz begins by asking, on behalf of the audience, why a natural sci…Read more
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25Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic and Philosophy of ScienceJournal of Philosophy 85 (3): 158-164. 1988.
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25Transcendental Philosophy and Twentieth Century PhyscisPhilosophy Today 49 (Supplement): 23-29. 2005.
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25Newtonian methodological abstractionStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 72 162-178. 2020.
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21Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of ScienceVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 9 25-41. 2002.In the Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason Kant formulates what he calls “the general problem of pure reason,” namely, “How are synthetic a priori judgements possible?” Kant explains that this general problem involves two more specific questions about particular a priori sciences: “How is pure mathematics possible?” and “How is pure natural science possible?”— where the first concerns, above all, the possibility of Euclidean geometry, and the second concerns the possibility of fundamenta…Read more
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21The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2007.Rudolf Carnap is increasingly regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the leading figures of the logical empiricist movement associated with the Vienna Circle and a central figure in the analytic tradition more generally. He made major contributions to philosophy of science and philosophy of logic, and, perhaps most importantly, to our understanding of the nature of philosophy as a discipline. In this volume a team of contributors explores the m…Read more
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16Paper, Plaster, Strings: Exploratory Material Mathematical Models between the 1860s and 1930sPerspectives on Science 29 (4): 436-467. 2021.Does the materiality of a three-dimensional model have an effect on how this model operates in an exploratory way, how it prompts discovery of new mathematical results? Material mathematical models were produced and used during the second half of the nineteenth century, visualizing mathematical objects, such as curves and surfaces—and these were produced from a variety of materials: paper, cardboard, plaster, strings, wood. However, the question, whether their materiality influenced the status o…Read more
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15A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th centuryStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 105 (C): 17-31. 2024.
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11Kant, Kuhn e a racionalidade da ciênciaPhilósophos - Revista de Filosofia 14 (1): 175-209. 2009.This paper considers the evolution of the problem of scientific rationality from Kant through Carnap to Kuhn. I argue for a relativized and historicized version of the original Kantian conception of scientific a priori principles and examine the way in which these principles change and develop across revolutionary paradigm shifts. The distinctively philosophical enterprise of reflecting upon and contextualizing such principles is then seen to play a key role in making possible rational intersubj…Read more
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10Ernst Cassirer and the Philosophy of ScienceIn Gary Gutting (ed.), Continental Philosophy of Science, Blackwell. 2005.
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9Suitable for those conducting research or teaching in philosophy, this title provides analyses of the continental tradition of philosophy from Kant. Placing continental philosophy within a historical context, it helps define what the continental tradition has been and where it is moving.
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