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Kant, science, and human nature [electronic resource] / Robert Hanna.

By: Hanna, Robert, 1957-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xvii, 483 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 193 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Empirical realism and scientific realism -- Direct perceptual realism I : the refutation of idealism -- Direct perceptual realism II : non-conceptual content -- Manifest realism I : a critique of scientific essentialism -- Manifest realism II : why gold is necessarily a yellow metal -- The practical foundations of the exact sciences -- Truth and human nature -- Mathematics for humans -- How do we know necessary truths? -- Where there's a will there's a way : causation and freedom.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-474) and index.

Empirical realism and scientific realism -- Direct perceptual realism I : the refutation of idealism -- Direct perceptual realism II : non-conceptual content -- Manifest realism I : a critique of scientific essentialism -- Manifest realism II : why gold is necessarily a yellow metal -- The practical foundations of the exact sciences -- Truth and human nature -- Mathematics for humans -- How do we know necessary truths? -- Where there's a will there's a way : causation and freedom.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.