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Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge: On Kant's Philosophy of Material Nature
Substance Force and the Possibility of Knowledge On Kant's Philosophy of Material Nature Author:Jeffrey Edwards A new understanding of Kant's theory of a priori knowledge and his natural philosophy emerges from Jeffrey Edwards's mature and penetrating study. Starting with an innovative analysis of Kant's argument for a dynamical plenum in the Third Analogy of Experience, Edwards goes on to examine the broader context of Kant's views about matter, subs... more »tance, causal influence, and physical aether in connection with the developmental history of his theory of transcendental idealism. 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, Edwards 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 his 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.« less