Michael Friedman (philosopher)

Michael Friedman
Born (1947-04-02) April 2, 1947 (age 77)
NationalityAmerican
EducationQueens College, City University of New York
Princeton University
Notable workFoundations of Space-Time Theories, Kant and the Exact Sciences, "A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger", Dynamics of Reason
SpouseGraciela De Pierris
AwardsMatchette Prize, Lakatos Award, Humboldt Research Award
EraModern philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
InstitutionsHarvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois at Chicago, Indiana University, UC Berkeley, University of Western Ontario, University of Konstanz
Notable studentsAndrew Janiak, Eric Winsberg
Main interests
Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, history of philosophy, Kantianism
Notable ideas
Dynamics of reason, retrospective communicative rationality,[1] relativized (constitutive) a priori principles as paradigms[2][3]
Websitephilosophy.stanford.edu/people/michael-friedman
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Michael Friedman (born April 2, 1947) is an American philosopher who serves as Suppes Professor of Philosophy of Science and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies at Stanford University. Friedman is best known for his work in the philosophy of science, especially on scientific explanation and the philosophy of physics, and for his historical work on Immanuel Kant. Friedman has done historical work on figures in continental philosophy such as Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer. He also serves as the co-director of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford University.

  1. ^ Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 96.
  2. ^ Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 45.
  3. ^ David Marshall Miller, Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 4 n. 2.
  4. ^ John R. Shook (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophy in America, 2016.

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