Caruso, Francisco and Xavier, Roberto Moreira (2015) On Kant's First Insight into the Problem of Space Dimensionality and its Physical Foundations. Kant-Studien, 106 (4). pp. 547-560. ISSN 1613-1134
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In this article it is shown that a careful analysis of Kant's Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte und Beurtheilung der Beweise leads to a conclusion that does not match the usually accepted interpretation of Kant's reasoning in 1747, according to which the young Kant supposedly establishes a relationship between the tridimensionality of space and Newton's law of universal gravitation. Indeed, it is argued that this text does not yield a satisfactory explanation of space dimensionality, and actually restricts itself to justifying the tridimensionality of extension.
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| Keywords: | Space; Physical space; Extension; Dimensionality; Leibniz; Newton | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Francisco Caruso | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2016 15:48 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2016 15:48 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 12242 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Kant-Studien | |||||||||
| Publisher: | De Gruyter | |||||||||
| Official URL: | https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/kant.2015.106.iss... | |||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1515/kant-2015-0051 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Date: | December 2015 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 547-560 | |||||||||
| Volume: | 106 | |||||||||
| Number: | 4 | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1613-1134 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12242 |
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