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Michael Friedman
Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities

Office: Building 100, Room 101L
Mailing:
Dept. of Philosophy
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2155

Phone: (650) 724-8588
Fax: (650) 723-0985
Email: mlfriedman@stanford.edu

Personal Portrait

Education History
BA, Queens College, 1969
PhD, Princeton University, 1973

Areas of Interest
Kant, Philosophy of Science, History of Twentieth Century Philosophy, including the interaction between philosophy and the exact sciences from Kant through the logical empiricists, prospects for post-Kuhnian philosophy of science in light of these developments, and the relationship between analytic and continental traditions in the early twentieth century.
Selected Bibliography

Books

Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and the Philosophy of Science (1983)
Kant and the Exact Sciences (1992)
Reconsidering Logical Positivism (1999)
A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (2000)
Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (2001)
Immanuel Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (2004)
The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science (2006)
The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (2007)

Recent Courses
At Stanford:

Philosophy 15: Freedom, Community, and Morality
Philosophy 61: Science, Religion, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy 224: Kant's Philosophy of Physical Science
Philosophy 260: Core Seminar in Philosophy of Science

Links and Online Papers


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