jimviola

Friedman is a historian of analytic philosophy, and reads Kant's 3 periods--pre-critical, critical, post-critical--as a development towards the telos of the foundations of mathematics in the early 20th century and debates concerning this in contemporaenous philosophy. It's a very useful book for references and for getting an idea of how a certain type of argument about the history of analysis might be constructed. But it doesn't push issues and implications far enough, given, I suppose, its lack of interest in philological concerns. E.g. I haven't yet seen how the moral and aesthetic philosophy fits into his picture of "Kant", and Lambert, the non-Euclidean geometer to whom Kant was to dedicate his first Critique, is not mentioned at all. Author is influenced by Ricketts, Hintikka ...

2023-02-16 04:35