Michael Friedman (philosopher)

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Michael Friedman
Born (1947-04-02) April 2, 1947 (age 77)
UC Berkeley, University of Western Ontario, University of Konstanz
Notable studentsAndrew 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]
Websitephilosophy.stanford.edu/people/michael-friedman

Michael Friedman (born April 2, 1947) is an American

scientific explanation and the philosophy of physics, and for his historical work on Immanuel Kant. Friedman has done historical work on figures in continental philosophy such as Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer
. He also serves as the co-director of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford University.

Education and career

Friedman earned his

University of Illinois at Chicago, Indiana University, and UC Berkeley as a visiting professor
.

Friedman has been a Fellow of the

The Philosopher's Annual
.

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

Philosophical Review as "a very important book," "required reading for researchers on the relation between the exact sciences and Kant's philosophy."[6]

Heidegger, as "eye-opening" and "ambitious". The book shed new light on the split between analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy.[7]

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

honorary professor at the University of Western Ontario
.

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

  1. ^ Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 96.
  2. ^ Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 45.
  3. ^ David Marshall Miller, Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 4 n. 2.
  4. ^ John R. Shook (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophy in America, 2016.
  5. ^ "philosophy.stanford.edu: Michael Friedman'S CV" (PDF).
  6. JSTOR 2185822
    .
  7. JSTOR 3649474
    .
  8. JSTOR 40040756
    – via JSTOR.
  9. ^ "Graciela de Pierris | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.stanford.edu.

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