1st Edition

Reality and Impenetrability in Kant's Philosophy of Nature

By Daniel Warren Copyright 2001
    112 Pages
    by Routledge

    114 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Chapter 1 Kant’s Critical Views Concerning the Category of Reality; Chapter 2 Inner Determinations and Relations; Chapter 3 Dynamical and Mechanistic Conceptions of Impenetrability;

    Biography

    Daniel Warren is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley

    "[Warren has] produced a gem of a dissertation, combining textual sensitivity with philosophical subtlety in pursuing connections between several important issues in Kant's natural philosophy and metaphysics." -- Eric Watson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews