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Kant: Natural Science
Contributor(s): Kant, Immanuel (Author), Watkins, Eric (Editor)
ISBN: 1139014382     ISBN-13: 9781139014380
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats
Published: November 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
Dewey: 500
Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
 
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Though Kant is best known for his strictly philosophical works in the 1780s, many of his early publications in particular were devoted to what we would call 'natural science'. Kant's Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755) made a significant advance in cosmology, and he was also instrumental in establishing the newly emerging discipline of physical geography, lecturing on it for almost his entire career. In this volume Eric Watkins brings together new English translations of Kant's first publication, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces (1746-1749), the entirety of Physical Geography (1802), a series of shorter essays, along with many of Kant's most important publications in natural science. The volume is rich in material for the student and the scholar, with extensive linguistic and explanatory notes, editorial introductions and a glossary of key terms.

Contributor Bio(s): Watkins, Eric: - Eric Watkins is Professor in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (Cambridge, 2005), editor of Kant and the Sciences (2001) and translated and edited Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials (Cambridge, 2009).