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Kant Science and Human Nature by Robert Hanna 2006 Hardcover

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ISBN-13: 9780199285549 Table Of Content: IntroductionPart I: Empirical Realism and Scientific Realism1. Direct Perceptual Realism I: The Refutation of Idealism2. Direct Perceptual Realism II: Nonconceptual Content3. Manifest Realism I: A Critique of Scientific Essentialism4. Manifest Realism II: Why Gold is Necessarily a Yellow MetalPart II: The Practical Foundations of the Exact Sciences5. Truth and Human Nature6. Mathematics for Humans7. How Do We Know Necessary Truths?8. Where There's a Will There's a Way: Causation and Freedom ISBN-10: 0199285543 Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Individual Philosophers, History & Surveys / Modern gtin13: 9780199285549 Publication Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Language: English Format: Hardcover LCCN: 2006-028125 Type: Textbook Item Height: 1.6 in brand: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Intended Audience: Scholarly & Professional Item Width: 6.1 in Dewey Decimal: 193 Author: Robert Hanna Publication Name: Kant, Science, and Human Nature Number of Pages: 512 Pages LC Classification Number: B2798.H293 2006 Synopsis: Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the "exact sciences"--relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century. In doing so he makes a valuable contribution to one of the most active and fruitful areas in contemporary scholarship on Kant., Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the 'exact sciences'--- relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century. In doing so he makes a valuable contribution to one of the most active and fruitful areas in contemporary scholarship on Kant., Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the 'exact sciences'--- relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century.Hanna's earlier book Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (OUP 2001), explores basic conceptual and historical connections between Immanuel Kant's 18th-century Critical Philosophy and the tradition of mainstream analytic philosophy from Frege to Quine. The central topics of the analytic tradition in its early and middle periods were meaning and necessity. But the central theme of mainstream analytic philosophy after 1950 is scientific naturalism, which holds---to use Wilfrid Sellars's apt phrase---that 'science is the measure of all things'. This type of naturalism is explicitly reductive. Kant, Science, and Human Nature has two aims, one negative and one positive. Its negative aim is to develop a Kantian critique of scientific naturalism. But its positive and more fundamental aim is to work out the elements of a humane, realistic, and nonreductive Kantian account of the foundations of the exact sciences. According to this account, the essential properties of the natural world are directly knowable through human sense perception (empirical realism), and practical reason is both explanatorily and ontologically prior to theoretical reason (the primacy of the practical). Item Length: 9.2 in Dewey Edition: 22 Item Weight: 32 Oz Subject Area: Philosophy, Science

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  1. A brilliant deep dive into Kant’s philosophy and its connection to modern science! Robert Hanna delivers a thought-provoking analysis of human nature that’s both scholarly and accessible. The hardcover edition is well-made, perfect for serious readers. Highly recommended for anyone interested in philosophy or cognitive science!

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