The contributions of Kantian thought to modern mathematics, mathematical                  logic, and the foundations of mathematics are now widely acknowledged by scholars.                  As the essays in this volume show, the general development of modern scientific                  thought--including the physical sciences, the life sciences, and mathematics--can be                  viewed as an evolution from Kant through Poincar? to Einstein and the logical                  positivists and beyond. Focusing on nineteenth-century science, the essays--by                  historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics--trace the multiple intellectual                  transformations that have led from Kant's original scientific situation to the                  scientific problems of the twentieth century.The book examines Kant's influence on                  five strands of nineteenth-century scientific thought: Naturphilosophie and the                  effect of German Romanticism (especially Goethe) on biology; Fries's philosophy of                  science; Helmholtz's rejection of Naturphilosophie and Romanticism; neo-Kantianism                  and its return to "methodological" concerns in natural science and academic                  philosophy; and Poincar? and his reflections on scientific epistemology. The essays                  give a nuanced picture of Kant's legacy to nineteenth-century thinkers and of the                  rich interaction between philosophical ideas and discoveries in the natural and                  mathematical sciences during this period. They point to the ways that the scientific                  developments of the nineteenth century link Kant's thought to the science of the                  twentieth century.Contributors:Frederick Beiser, Robert DiSalle, Janet Folina,                  Michael Friedman, Jeremy Gray, Frederick Gregory, Michael Heidelberger, Timothy                  Lenoir, Jesper L?tzen, Alfred Nordmann, Helmut Pulte, Robert Richards, Alan                  Richardson

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