Kant`s Theory of Science

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the anti-reductionist Kant reductionism characterized reductionism rejected: "the Copemican Revolution" the analytic/synthetic distinction and really possible worlds presuppositions and truth values Kant`s philosophy of mathematics the reduction of mathematics to logic: the Frege-Russell program the Beth-Hintikka reconstruction the Lambert-Parsons reconstruction constructibility, pure intuitions, and objective reality geometry, Euclidean and non-Euclidean the analyticity of geometry geometry and space space and spatiality the axioms of intuition extensive magnitudes the metric of space and time motion and space objectivity concepts Kant`s argument revisited Kant and Newton Hume`s challenge Kant`s response the "objectivity" of Newtonian physics matter, nature, and Newton the law of universal gravitation the substance of matter substances and space impenetrability and the two "grand hypotheses" matter and mass time and causality events and causes the causal theory of time causality and objectivity "weak" and "strong" causality the problem of induction and its "solution" Hume `s problem "grue"-type predicates Kant`s "solution" objects and causes Hume revisited Kant and quantum mechanics