How is metaphysics as a science possible? Kant on the distinction between philosophical and mathematical method.

The Review of Metaphysics | December 1, 1995| | Copyright

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METAPHYSICS AS A SCIENCE AND THE ANALYTIC-SYNTHETIC DISTINCTION. In his important study on Kant and the exact sciences, Michael Friedman argues rather convincingly that "much of Kant's philosophical development can be understood, . . . as a continuous attempt to construct. . . a genuine metaphysical foundation for Newtonian natural philosophy."(1) Kant started his philosophical career as an adherent of what used loosely to be called Leibnizian-Wolffian metaphysics; but he became increasingly more skeptical of the possibility of reconciling this metaphysics with ...

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