![]() This will provide concrete examples on how Fries thought philosophy to support science. In my paper, I will trace Fries’s application of his heurist maxims on the development of other evolving fields of research. ![]() A successor of Kant, the philosopher, natural scientist and mathematician Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773-1843), accommodates Kant’s major thoughts on a metaphysical foundation but aims at assisting natural science of his time by employing a heuristic interpretation of Kant’s fundamental forces. Other research fields like electrostatics, magnetism, chemistry or biology are hardly dealt with. Fries’s Extension of Kant’s Metaphysical Foundationsįries Kant Newtonianism Natural Philosophy Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science Mathematical Philosophy of Nature Mechanics Electricity Magnetism ChemistryĪBSTRACT: Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science has an almost exclusive focus on Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. ![]() ![]() Integrating Chemistry, Electricity and Magnetism into Dynamical Natural Philosophy: J. London: Printed for William Innys at the Westend of St. Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ![]()
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