Kant's Newtonian Revolution in Philosophy

by Robert Hahn

Hahn boldly corrects the misconceptions of Kant's Copernican revolution in philosophy and explains the specific Newtonian model used by Kant to construct his own philosophy in the Critique of Pure Reason.

Relying on resources familiar to Kant--Newton's Opticks and Principia and especially Christian von Wolff's commentary on scientific method--Hahn argues that Kant viewed Copernicus as the proponent of a novel hypothesis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080931441X
• ISBN13: 9780809314416
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"