Bitbol, Michel
Constituting Objectivity
I. Historical Survey of Transcendental Readings of Physics
1. Introduction
Michel Bitbol, Pierre Kerszberg, Jean Petitot
2. Newton and Kant on Absolute Space: From Theology to Transcendental Philosophy
Michael Friedman
3. On Kant's Transcendental Account of Newtonian Mechanics
Pierre Kerszberg
4. Ernst Cassirer: Open Constitution by Functional A Priori and Symbolical Structuring
Christiane Schmitz-Rigal
5. On the Transposition of the Substantial into the Functional: Bringing Cassirer's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics into the Twenty-First Century
Angelo Cei, Steven French
6. Moritz Schlick: Between Synthetic A
Christian Bonnet, Ronan de Calan
7. Carnap's Relativised A Priori and Ontology
Paolo Parrini
II. Transcendental Epistemologies and Modern Physics
8. The Transcendental Domain of Physics
Rom Harré
9. Determinism, Determination, and Objectivity in Modern Physics
Gordon Brittan
10. The Constitution of Objects in Classical Physics and in Quantum Physics
Peter Mittelstaedt
11. Laws of Nature: The Kantian Approach
Giovanni Boniolo
12. The Transcendental Role of the Principle of Anticipations of Perception in Quantum Mechanics
Patricia Kauark-Leite
13. Can the Principle of Least Action Be Considered a Relativized A Priori?
Michael Stöltzner
14. A Critical Account of Physical Reality
Brigitte Falkenburg
15. Einstein, Kant, and the Relativized
Michael Friedman
16. A Cognizable Universe: Transcendental Arguments in Physical Cosmology
Yuri Balashov
17. Hermann Weyl and “First Philosophy”: Constituting Gauge Invariance
Thomas Ryckman
18. Old Wine Enriched in New Bottles: Kantian Flavors in Bohr's Viewpoint of Complementarity
Steen Brock
19. A Transcendental Account of Correspondence and Complementarity
Hernán Pringe
20. The Convergence of Transcendental Philosophy and Quantum Physics: Grete Henry-Hermann's 1935 Pioneering Proposal
Léna Soler
21. Decoherence and the Constitution of Objectivity
Michel Bitbol
22. The Entangled Roots of Objective Knowledge
Stefano Osnaghi
23. Can Classical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
Gabriel Catren
24. A View of the Symbolic Structure of Modern Physics
Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu
25. Symbolic Constructions in Quantum Field Theory
Hans Günter Dosch, Volkhard F. Müller, Norman Sieroka
26. Noncommutative Geometry and Transcendental Physics
Jean Petitot
III. Debate About the Relevance of Transcendental Epistemology for Modern Physics: Transcendentalism, Empiricism and Realism
27. Can Empiricism Leave Its Realism Behind? Toward a Dialogue with Transcendentalists
Bas C. van Fraassen
28. A Physicist's Approach to Kant
Bernard d'Espagnat
29. Structural Realism and Abductive-Transcendental Arguments
Holger Lyre
30. Provisional Knowledge
Paul Teller
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, History of Physics, History of Science, Modern Philosophy
- Author(s)
- Bitbol, Michel
- Kerszberg, Pierre
- Petitot, Jean
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The Western Ontario Series In Philosophy of Science
- Page amount
- 552 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402095108