HOW CONTEMPORARY COSMOLOGY BYPASSES KANTIAN PROHIBITION AGAINST A SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSE

vincenzo, fano and giovanni, macchia (2008) HOW CONTEMPORARY COSMOLOGY BYPASSES KANTIAN PROHIBITION AGAINST A SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSE.

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Abstract

In the present essay Kantian prohibition against scientific cosmology is discussed. It is shown that the possibility of such a science is based essentially on a hypothetico-deductive use of the cosmological principle. Moreover the epistemological character of the latter is investigated, in order to prove that it has no a priori character, against the received view on the topics.

Keywords:	cosmological principle Kant Einstein hypothetico-deductive method
Subjects:	Specific Sciences: Physics: Cosmology
ID Code:	4413
Deposited By:	fano, vincenzo
Deposited On:	20 January 2009