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  title info:
    title: Constituting Objectivity
    sub title: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics
  name:
    name part: Bitbol, Michel.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kerszberg, Pierre.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Petitot, Jean.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 544 p. online resource.
  abstract: In recent years, many philosophers of modern physics came to the conclusion that the problem of how objectivity is constituted (rather than merely given) can no longer be avoided, and therefore that a transcendental approach in the spirit of Kant is now philosophically relevant. The usual excuse for skipping this task is that the historical form given by Kant to transcendental epistemology has been challenged by Relativity and Quantum Physics. However, the true challenge is not to force modern physics into a rigidly construed static version of Kant's philosophy, but to provide Kant's method with flexibility and generality. In this book, the top specialists of the field pin down the methodological core of transcendental epistemology that must be used in order to throw light on the foundations of modern physics. First, the basic tools Kant used for his transcendental reading of Newtonian Mechanics are examined, and then early transcendental approaches of Relativistic and Quantum Physics are revisited. Transcendental procedures are also applied to contemporary physics, and this renewed transcendental interpretation is finally compared with structural realism and constructive empiricism. The book will be of interest to scientists, historians and philosophers who are involved in the foundational problems of modern physics. .
  table of contents: Historical Survey of Transcendental Readings of Physics -- Newton and Kant on Absolute Space: From Theology to Transcendental Philosophy -- On Kant's Transcendental Account of Newtonian Mechanics -- Ernst Cassirer: Open Constitution by Functional A Priori and Symbolical Structuring -- On the Transposition of the Substantial into the Functional: Bringing Cassirer's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics into the Twenty-First Century -- Moritz Schlick: Between Synthetic A Priori Judgment and Conventionalism -- Carnap's Relativised A Priori and Ontology -- Transcendental Epistemologies and Modern Physics -- The Transcendental Domain of Physics -- Determinism, Determination, and Objectivity in Modern Physics -- The Constitution of Objects in Classical Physics and in Quantum Physics -- Laws of Nature: The Kantian Approach -- The Transcendental Role of the Principle of Anticipations of Perception in Quantum Mechanics -- Can the Principle of Least Action Be Considered a Relativized A Priori? -- A Critical Account of Physical Reality -- Einstein, Kant, and the Relativized A Priori -- A Cognizable Universe: Transcendental Arguments in Physical Cosmology -- Hermann Weyl and “First Philosophy”: Constituting Gauge Invariance -- Old Wine Enriched in New Bottles: Kantian Flavors in Bohr's Viewpoint of Complementarity -- A Transcendental Account of Correspondence and Complementarity -- The Convergence of Transcendental Philosophy and Quantum Physics: Grete Henry-Hermann's 1935 Pioneering Proposal -- Decoherence and the Constitution of Objectivity -- The Entangled Roots of Objective Knowledge -- Can Classical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? -- A View of the Symbolic Structure of Modern Physics -- Symbolic Constructions in Quantum Field Theory -- Noncommutative Geometry and Transcendental Physics -- Debate About the Relevance of Transcendental Epistemology for Modern Physics: Transcendentalism, Empiricism and Realism -- Can Empiricism Leave Its Realism Behind? Towar…
  note: edited by Michel Bitbol, Pierre Kerszberg, Jean Petitot.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Modern philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Modern Philosophy
  classification: B67
  classification: 501
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: The Western Ontario Series In Philosophy of Science, 74
  identifier: 9781402095108
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9510-8
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204154307.0
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