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55Leibniz, Kant und der moderne SymmetriebegriffKant Studien 102 (4): 422-454. 2011.The paper analyses the significance of the modern concept of „symmetry“ for the understanding of the concept of „intuition“ in Kant's philosophy of geometry. A symmetry transformation or automorphism is a structure preserving mapping of the space into itself that leaves all relevant structure intact so that the result is always like the original, in all relevant respects. Hermann Weyl was the first to show that this idea can be drawn on Leibniz's definition of similarity: two figures are similar…Read more
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11Gradus realitatis – die intensive Größe bei Kant und im NeukantianismusIn Thomas Leinkauf & Thomas Kisser (eds.), Intensität Und Realität: Systematische Analysen Zur Problemgeschichte von Gradualität, Intensität Und Quantitativer Differenz in Ontologie Und Metaphysik, De Gruyter. pp. 141-170. 2016.
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103Talking at cross-purposes: how Einstein and the logical empiricists never agreed on what they were disagreeing aboutSynthese 190 (17): 3819-3863. 2013.By inserting the dialogue between Einstein, Schlick and Reichenbach into a wider network of debates about the epistemology of geometry, this paper shows that not only did Einstein and Logical Empiricists come to disagree about the role, principled or provisional, played by rods and clocks in General Relativity, but also that in their lifelong interchange, they never clearly identified the problem they were discussing. Einstein’s reflections on geometry can be understood only in the context of hi…Read more
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17Kant, Helmholtz, Riemann und der Ursprung der geometrischen AxiomePhilosophia Naturalis 45 (2): 236-269. 2008.
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Von der Realopposition zum Unendlichkleinen. Betrachtungen über das Verhältnis von Negation und Realität bei Kant und in der nachkantischen PhilosophieIn Pierfrancesco Fiorato (ed.), Verneinung, Andersheit Und Unendlichkeit Im Neukantianismus, Kã¶nigshausen Und Neumann. pp. 10--25. 2008.
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31Leibniz-Äquivalenz vs. Einstein-Äquivalenz. Was man von der Logisch-Empiristischen (Fehl-)Interpretation des Punkt-Koinzidenz-Arguments lernen kannPhilosophia Naturalis 50 (1): 115-164. 2013.The discovery that Einstein's celebrated argument for general covariance, the 'point-coincidence argument ', was actually a response to the ' hole argument ' has generated an intense philosophical debate in the last thirty years. Even if the philosophical consequences of Einstein's argument turned out to be highly controversial, the protagonists of such a debate seem to agree on considering Einstein's argument as an expression of 'Leibniz equivalence', a modern version of Leibniz's celebrated in…Read more
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93Hermann Cohen's Das Princip der Infinitesimal-Methode: The history of an unsuccessful bookStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 58 9-23. 2016.This paper offers an introduction to Hermann Cohen’s Das Princip der Infinitesimal-Methode, and recounts the history of its controversial reception by Cohen’s early sympathizers, who would become the so-called ‘Marburg school’ of Neo-Kantianism, as well as the reactions it provoked outside this group. By dissecting the ambiguous attitudes of the best-known representatives of the school, as well as those of several minor figures, this paper shows that Das Princip der Infinitesimal-Methode is a un…Read more
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