Michael Friedman (philosopher)
Michael Friedman | |
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Born | UC Berkeley, University of Western Ontario, University of Konstanz | April 2, 1947
Notable students | Andrew Janiak, Eric Winsberg |
Main interests | Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, history of philosophy, Kantianism |
Notable ideas | Dynamics of reason, retrospective communicative rationality,[1] relativized (constitutive) a priori principles as paradigms[2][3] |
Website | philosophy |
Michael Friedman (born April 2, 1947) is an American
Education and career
Friedman earned his
.Friedman has been a Fellow of the
Philosophical work
Friedman's early work was on the nature of scientific explanation and the philosophy of physics. His first book, Foundations of Space-Time Theories, was published by Princeton University Press in 1983 won the Matchette Prize (now known as the Book Prize) from the American Philosophical Association, to recognize work by a younger scholar. It also won the Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics to recognize outstanding work in philosophy of science.
Kant and the Exact Sciences was described in
In his book Dynamics of Reason, Friedman "provides the fullest account to date not only of [his] neo-Kantian, historicized, dynamical conception of relativized a priori principles of mathematics and physics, but also of the pivotal role that [he] sees philosophy as playing in making scientific revolutions rational."[8]
Friedman is an
Personal life
Friedman is married to Graciela De Pierris, a professor of philosophy at Stanford who has published work on early modern philosophy.[9]
Selected publications
Books
- Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and the Philosophy of Science (Princeton University Press, 1983)
- Kant and the Exact Sciences (Harvard University Press, 1992)
- Reconsidering Logical Positivism (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (Open Court, 2000)
- Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001)
- Immanuel Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 2004) (editor)
- The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science (MIT Press, 2006) (co-editor with Alfred Nordmann)
- The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (2007) (co-editor with Richard Creath)
- Kant's Construction of Nature: A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Journal articles
- Friedman, Michael (June 1998). "Kantian themes in contemporary philosophy". JSTOR 4107015.
References
- ^ Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 96.
- ^ Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 45.
- ^ David Marshall Miller, Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 4 n. 2.
- ^ John R. Shook (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophy in America, 2016.
- ^ "philosophy.stanford.edu: Michael Friedman'S CV" (PDF).
- JSTOR 2185822.
- JSTOR 3649474.
- JSTOR 40040756– via JSTOR.
- ^ "Graciela de Pierris | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.stanford.edu.