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(2011) Philosophy in science, Dordrecht, Springer.
Kant's system can be regarded as a philosophical sanction for mechanism. Asking how a philosophical science of nature is possible, Kant had classical physics in mind (implicitly judging that any other physics is impossible), and Kant's whole subtle theory of perceptual knowledge was created chiefly in order to justify the claim that Newtonian absolutes—time and space—are necessary a priori.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17705-7_9
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Heller, M. (2011). The romantic philosophy of nature, in Philosophy in science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 85-100.
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