Kant's Theory of Natural Science: Translation, Analytic Introduction and Commentary by Alfred E. and

Translators' Preface. Translators' Introduction and Commentary. Table of Contents to Introduction and Commentary. 1. Aims and Structure of this Introduction. 2. Central Themes of Kant's Philosophy of Science: Metaphysics and Mathematics as the a priori Basis for Natural Science. 3. Kant's Assumptions and Questions as the Background for Interpreting his Philosophy. 4. Overall Goal, Structure and Content of the MF. 5. Metaphysical Construction: the Central Method of the MF. 6. Plaass's Interpretation of `Metaphysical Construction' and the Issue of `Objective Reality' in the MF. 7. The Relation of the Empirical Part of Physics to the Pure Part. 8. The Relevance of Kant's Philosophy of Natural Science Today. Kant's Theory of Natural Science according to P. Plaass: an Introductory Analytic Essay by C.F. von Weizsäcker (1965). Kant's Theory of Natural Science; P. Plaass. Preface; C.F. von Weizsäcker. Foreword; P. Plaass. Table of Contents. 0: Introduction. 1: The Object of Natural Science: Nature. 2: Doctrine and Science Proper. 3: The Pure Part of Natural Science. 4: The Empirical Concept of Matter. 5: Pure Natural Science as Pure Doctrine of Motion. 6: The Function of the Pure Part. Bibliography. Selected Bibliography since Plaass. Glossary. Index.