This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond.
This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond.
During this period, various scientific disciplines underwent modernisation processes characterised by an increasing empirical inclination and a decline in the influence of metaphysics, the pluralisation of theories, and the historical and pragmatic revitalisation of scientific claims against philosophy. The various contributions look at the ways in which a certain ‘Kantian orthodoxy’ was influenced by these new developments and whether (and how) itself had some impact on the development of the sciences. The volume is not limited to the 'exact sciences' of mathematics and physics, which are particularly important for the Kantian tradition, but also takes into account less recognised disciplines such as biology, chemistry, technology and psychology. It is complemented by contributions that contrast Neo-Kantianism with other 'scientific philosophies' of the period in question.
New Perspectives on Neo-Kantianism and the Sciences will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Neo-Kantianism, 19th- and 20th-century philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science.
Editorss Introduction: Neo-Kantianism and the Sciences Part 1:
Mathematics
1. (Neo-)Kantian Foundation of Foundatians: The Göttingen Case
Volker Peckhaus
2. Cassirer on the Concept of Number: A Neo-Kantian
Perspective on Dedekindian Abstraction Francesca Biagioli
3. From Magnitudes
to Real Numbers. Cantor and Dedekinds Number Extensions and Their Reception
in the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism Daniel Koenig Part 2: Physics
4.
Clouds over Classical Physics? Neo-Kantian Perspectives on Kants Ideal of
Physics as the Fundamental Empirical Science Helmut Pulte
5. Kurd Lasswitz,
the Marburg School and the Problem of Individuality in Physics Marco
Giovanelli
6. Hermann von Helmholtz on the Unification of Science Gregor
Schiemann Part 3: Chemistry and Technology
7. Physical and Chemical Atomism.
Helmholtz and Cassirer on Chemical Classifications Rudolf Meer
8. Cassirer on
the Construction of Concepts in Chemistry Henny Blomme
9. Technology in
Neo-Kantianism between Theory and Practice. A First Insight Tim-Florian
Steinbach Part 4: Biology
10. Philosophy of Biology in Neo-Kantianism Georg
Toepfer
11. The Impact of Kantian Philosophy on Organic Form: Teleology,
Organism, and Material Properties in Early Twentieth Century Morphology Marco
Tamborini
12. From Kant to Holism: The Decline of Neo-Kantianism and the Rise
of Theoretical Biology Jan Baedke, Alexander Böhm, and Stefan Reiners-Selbach
Part 5: Psychology
13. The Problem of Psychology in Neo-Kantianism: On the
Relevance of Richard Hönigswald Christian Krijnen
14. Descriptive or
Reconstructive Psychology. On Natorps Critique of Dilthey Hans-Ulrich
Lessing Part 6: The Context of other Scientific Philosophies
15. Systems
after the Systems Cosmic Texts and Integrative Practices in Neo-Kantian
Contexts Paul Ziche
16. Critique de la Science in France: Conventionalism
or/and Neo-Kantianism in Geometry? Gerhard Heinzmann
17. Factum and Region:
Neo-Kantian and Phenomenological Paradigms for a Philosophy of Science
Sebastian Luft
Helmut Pulte is Chair of Philosophy and History of Science at Ruhr-University Bochum and Co-editor in chief of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science. He authored (inter alia) Axiomatik und Empirie (2005) and co-edited Hermann von Helmholtz, Gesammelte Philosophische und Populärwissenschaftliche Schriften (3 vols., 2017) as well as The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe (3 vols., 2019).
Jan Baedke is Junior Professor at the Institute for Philosophy I, Ruhr-University Bochum. He is author of Above the Gene, Beyond Biology: Toward a Philosophy of Epigenetics (2018) and PI of the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded research group ROTO (The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical, and Social Dimensions).
Daniel Koenig is a Research assistant in History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz. He defended his PhD thesis at the Mathematics Department of the University of Siegen. His research is on Ernst Cassirers philosophy of mathematics and his philosophy of culture in general. He co-edited a volume Mathematik in der Tradition des Neukantianismus (2019).
Gregor Nickel is Professor for functional analysis and philosophy of mathematics at Siegen University. He obtained his PhD in pure mathematics in Tübingen. His publications include mathematical research papers and philosophical papers on Nicolas of Cusa. He edited a volume of Kants contributions to the philosophy of mathematics and volumes on interactions between mathematics and society.
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