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Kants Grundsatz der âAntizipationen der Wahrnehmungâ und seine Bedeutung für die theoretische Philosophie des Marburger NeukantianismusâIn Marion Heinz & Christian Krijnen (eds.), Kant Im Neukantianismus: Fortschritt Oder Rã¼Ckschritt?, Kã¶nigshausen Und Neumann. 2007.
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44Urbild und Abbild. Leibniz, Kant und Hausdorff über das RaumproblemJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 41 (2): 283-313. 2010.The article attempts to reconsider the relationship between Leibniz’s and Kant’s philosophy of geometry on the one hand and the nineteenth century debate on the foundation of geometry on the other. The author argues that the examples used by Leibniz and Kant to explain the peculiarity of the geometrical way of thinking are actually special cases of what the Jewish-German mathematician Felix Hausdorff called “transformation principle”, the very same principle that thinkers such as Helmholtz or Po…Read more
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53Leibniz, 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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10Gradus 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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100Talking 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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Space and Time |
Special Relativity |
General Relativity |
Space and Time, Misc |
Logical Empiricism |
Neo-Kantianism |