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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
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Education History
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BA, Queens College, 1969
PhD, Princeton University, 1973
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Areas of Interest
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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.
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Selected Bibliography
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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)
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Recent Courses
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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
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Links and Online Papers
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