TY - JOUR
T1 - Synthesis, logical forms, and the objects of our ordinary experience response to Michael Friedman
AU - Longuenesse, Béatrice
PY - 2001/8
Y1 - 2001/8
N2 - In the 82/2 (2000) issue of this journal, Michael Friedman has offered a stimulating discussion of my recent book, Kant and the Capacity to Judge. His conclusion is that on the whole I fail to do justice to what is most revolutionary about Kant's natural philosophy, and instead end up attributing to Kant a pre-Newtonian, Aristotelian philosophy of nature. This is because, according to Friedman, I put excessive weight on Kant's claim to have derived his categories from a set of logical forms of judgment which he inherits from a traditional Aristotelian logic. In taking Kant at his word on this point, I fail to give their full import to Kant's insights into the newly discovered applications of mathematical concepts and methods to the science of nature.
AB - In the 82/2 (2000) issue of this journal, Michael Friedman has offered a stimulating discussion of my recent book, Kant and the Capacity to Judge. His conclusion is that on the whole I fail to do justice to what is most revolutionary about Kant's natural philosophy, and instead end up attributing to Kant a pre-Newtonian, Aristotelian philosophy of nature. This is because, according to Friedman, I put excessive weight on Kant's claim to have derived his categories from a set of logical forms of judgment which he inherits from a traditional Aristotelian logic. In taking Kant at his word on this point, I fail to give their full import to Kant's insights into the newly discovered applications of mathematical concepts and methods to the science of nature.
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U2 - 10.1515/agph.83.2.199
DO - 10.1515/agph.83.2.199
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:60949830617
SN - 0003-9101
VL - 83
SP - 199
EP - 212
JO - Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie
JF - Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie
IS - 2
ER -