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Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge - On Kant's Philosophy of Material Nature (Hardcover)
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Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge - On Kant's Philosophy of Material Nature (Hardcover)
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A new understanding of Kant's theory of a priori knowledge and his
natural philosophy emerges from Jeffrey Edwards's mature and
penetrating study. In the Third Analogy of Experience, Kant argues
for the existence of a dynamical plenum in space. This argument
against empty space demonstrates that the dynamical plenum
furnishes an a priori necessary condition for our experience and
knowledge of an objective world.
Such an a priori existence proof, however, transgresses the limits
Kant otherwise places on transcendental arguments in the "Critique
of Pure Reason" because it establishes a "material" transcendental
condition of possible experience. This finding motivates Edwards to
examine the broader context of Kant's views about matter,
substance, causal influence, and physical aether in connection with
the developmental history of his theory of transcendental idealism.
Against the backdrop of early modern metaphysics and
contemporaneous physical theory, Edwards explicates the origins of
the Third Analogy in Kant's early work on the metaphysics of
nature.
The argument against empty space presented in the Third Analogy
reveals a central aspect of Kant's transcendental theory of
experience that Edwards explains lucidly. By clarifying the
epistemological standpoint at issue in the Third Analogy, he shows
that the fundamental revisions to which Kant subjects his theory of
knowledge in the "Opus postumum" not only originate in his
precritical metaphysics of nature but are developments of an
argument central to the "Critique of Pure Reason" itself. Edwards's
work is important to scholars working in the history of philosophy
and the history and philosophy of science, as well as to Kant
specialists.
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