The Modern Synthesis: Einstein and Kant

Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 14 (2):193-216 (2009)
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The paper discusses the Kantian legacy in modern views about scientific theories. The aim of this paper is to show how Einstein's philosophy of science, which was inspired by his physics, offers a specialized version of the Kantian synthesis of Empiricism and Rationalism. In modern physical theories Kant's a priori conditions become “constraints,” as shown in Einstein's use of principle theories. Einstein's use of principle theories shows how constraints are used to steer the mapping of the rational onto the empirical elements of scientific theories.

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10.35765/forphil.2009.1402.17

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