David M Hyder

The Mechanics of Meaning: Propositional Content and the Logical Space of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Quellen Und Studien Zur Philosophie)

This book considers the origins of the Tractatus in Neo-Kantian philosophy of science, above all the work of Hermann von Helmholtz and Heinrich Hertz. The author argues that Wittgenstein's notion of a "logical space", the precursor of the Stone space, developed out of formal problems in Frege's and ...

The Determinate World: Kant and Helmholtz on the Physical Meaning of Geometry

This book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtzs work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtzs Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature ""completel...

The Determinate World: Kant and Helmholtz on the Physical Meaning of Geometry by David Hyder (2009-11-16)

The Determinate World (Quellen Und Studien Zur Philosophie)

This book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz s work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtz s Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature completel...

Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences

This book is a collection of essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. Published and ignored under the Nazi dictatorship, Husserl's last work has never received the attention its author's prominence demands. In the Crisis, Husserl con...