Daniel Pinto
Daniel Pinto
As a complement to his version of Euclid's Optics, the Portuguese mathematician Francisco the Melo (1490-1536) wrote a short treatise on the principles of vision that also included a summary description of the components of the eye. Combini...
From orbits to orbitals. Early pictorializations of electron probability densities [0.03%]
从轨道到电子云：早期的电子概率密度图像化
Tilman Sauer,Kristin Sellmann
Tilman Sauer
The transition from atomic models of the old quantum theory to the wave mechanics of mature quantum mechanics entailed a change from electronic orbits to orbitals. The former look like planets orbiting a central star, while orbitals are ele...
The development of Kant's precritical cosmology and some 'critical' consequences [0.03%]
康德先验批判宇宙论的发展以及一些“批判”结果
Helmut Pulte
Helmut Pulte
The following paper was inspired by editorial work on some of early precritical writings for the new Academy Edition of Immanuel Kant which can be characterized as more or (more often) less coherent compositions of traditional rational cosm...
Falk Wunderlich
Falk Wunderlich
This paper deals with Kant's elaboration of a metaphysical foundation of the principle of inertia in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Many of Kant's contemporaries treat inertia not as an issue of mathematical physics but ra...
Kant's pragmatic account of science: empirical conditions for securing the path of research [0.03%]
康德关于科学的实用主义观点——研究路径的确立之经验性条件
Thomas Sturm,Larissa Wallner
Thomas Sturm
We provide a reconstruction of Kant's empirical-pragmatic account of science, focusing on psychological, social, and historical conditions that 'pragmatically' promote or hinder the advancement of science. Our novel reconstruction offers a ...
Eric Watkins
Eric Watkins
This paper discusses several central features of Kant's account of how regulative principles guide scientific inquiry. Specifically, it focuses on Kant's views on what these regulative principles are, why they are justified, how they functi...
Jennifer Mensch
Jennifer Mensch
In 1786 Georg Forster published a widely read critique of Immanuel Kant's theory of race. Since then, the dispute between Forster and Kant on the unity of mankind has been widely discussed in light of both Forster's essay and Kant's decisio...
Boris Demarest
Boris Demarest
In this paper, I argue that, by the contingency of organic forms with regard to the mechanical laws of nature, Kant means their accidental or coincidental nature with respect to these laws. Something is coincidental if it cannot be shown wh...
Fabian Burt
Fabian Burt
In his Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755), Kant claims that the Universe has existed for 'a series of millions of years and centuries'. In light of the authority of biblical chronology, according to which God created...
Stephen Howard
Stephen Howard
Debates over the nature, status, and explanatory scope of various ethers were widespread among seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophers. This article argues that an important feature of Kant's mature natural philosophy is it...