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The Determinate World : Kant and Helmholtz on the Physical Meaning of Geometry (2009)

Hyder, David.

Berlin ;Boston :De Gruyter,

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Format: 1 online resource (237p.)

ISBN: 9783110217209

Series Statement: Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; 69

Content: This book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz’s work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtz’s Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature “completely comprehensible”, which implies that all physical magnitudes must be relations among empirically given phenomena. This conviction eventually forced Helmholtz to explain how geometry itself could be so construed. Hyder shows how Helmholtz answered this question by drawing on the theory of magnitudes developed in his research on the colour-space. He argues against the dominant interpretation of Helmholtz’s work by suggesting that for the latter, it is less the inductive character of geometry that makes it empirical, and rather the regulative requirement that the system of natural science be empirically closed.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , 1. Introduction -- , 2. The Empirical Determination of Physical Concepts in Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science -- , 3. Helmholtz on the Comprehension of Nature -- , 4. Colour-theory and Manifolds -- , 5. The Road to Empirical Geometry -- , 6. Helmholtz on Geometry, 1868 – 1878 -- , 7. Conclusion -- , Backmatter , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-018391-7

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110217209

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217209

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The Determinate World : Kant and Helmholtz on the Physical Meaning of Geometry (2009)

Hyder, David

Berlin, New York : Walter de Gruyter

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Format: Online-Ressource

Edition: 2011

ISBN: 9783110217209

Series Statement: Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie 69

Content: This study examines the place of Hermann von Helmholtz's seminal papers on geometry in his philosophy of science. The arguments of these papers are traced back to his prior work on the theory of magnitudes, as well as to Helmholtz's early, Kantian position. The author claims that Helmholtz should be understood not as opposing Kant, but as modifying the latter's theory of magnitudes so as to remove obstacles to their common project of constructing a complete system of natural science

Content: This study examines the place of Hermann von Helmholtz´s seminal papers on geometry in his philosophy of science. The arguments of these papers are traced back to his prior work on the theory of magnitudes, as well as to Helmholtz´s early, Kantian position. The author claims that Helmholtz should be understood not as opposing Kant, but as modifying the latter´s theory of magnitudes so as to remove obstacles to their common project of constructing a complete system of natural science.