Kant's Philosophy of Science

Midwest Studies in Philosophy 8 (1):387-407 (1983)
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This paper attempts to understand kant's obscure remarks that certain parts of natural science are a priori or have something akin to an a priori status. i argue that kant does not claim that propositions of physics are fully a priori, that the notion of a proposition's being a priori "given an empirical concept" can be explicated, that kant's attempted defense of the status of parts of dynamics is deeply flawed because of his commitments about a priority, but that his account of natural science contains some important insights

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Philip Kitcher
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