Author: Edwards, Jeffrey
Title: Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge: On Kant's Philosophy of Material Nature
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2000). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiv,277 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Problem of Material Transcendental Conditions in Kant's Theory of A Priori Knowledge: Dynamical Community, Influences, & Matter Everywhere: The Transcendental Principle of Community & Its Proof; Problems in the Third Analogy; Influence, Matter, & Force in the Transcendental Analytic & the Metaphysical Foundation of Mechanics; The Historical Backround to Kant's Critical Theory of Dynamical Community: Substance & Substantial Force in Leibniz & Wolff; Dynamical Community, Physical Influence, & Universal Harmony in the Developments of Kant's Metaphysics; Dynamical Aether in Kant's Philosphy of Nature: Corpuscular & Dynamical Theories of Matter in 17th- and 18th-Century Natural Philosophy; The Theory of Physical Aether in Kant's Philosphy of Nature; The Theory of Dynamical Community & the Idea of a Transcendental Dynamics: The Third Analogy & the Opus Postumum; Kant's Transcendental Theory: Heterodox Considerations on Its History.

Keywords: Philosophy of Nature, Immanuel Kant, Kantian, Metaphysics, Natural, Theory of Knowledge, A Priori, Epistemology,