Ernst Cassirer - Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Science

In "Substance and Function" (1910), he writes about late nineteenth-century developments in physics and the foundations of mathematics. In "Einstein's Theory of Relativity" (1921) he defended the claim that modern physics supports a neo-Kantian conception of knowledge. He also wrote a book about Quantum Mechanics called "Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics" (1936).

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