Michael Friedman (philosopher) - Wikipedia Michael Friedman (philosopher) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Michael Friedman Born (1947-04-02) April 2, 1947 (age 73) Brookline, Massachusetts[1] Alma mater Queens College, City University of New York Princeton University Era Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy School Analytic philosophy Main interests Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, history of philosophy, Kantianism Notable ideas Dynamics of reason, retrospective communicative rationality,[2] relativized (constitutive) a priori principles as paradigms[3][4] Influences Immanuel Kant, Carl Gustav Hempel, Hans Reichenbach, Clark Glymour, Jürgen Habermas Michael Friedman (born April 2, 1947) is an American philosopher. He is currently the Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities 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 also done important historical work on figures in Continental philosophy such as Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer. Contents 1 Education and career 2 Philosophical work 3 Notable Students 4 Selected publications 4.1 Books 4.2 Journal articles 5 References 6 External links Education and career[edit] Friedman earned his A.B. from Queens College, City University of New York in New York in 1969 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1973.[5] He is now Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford University.[6] Before moving to Stanford in 2002, Friedman taught at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Indiana University. He is married to the philosopher Graciela de Pierris, who is an associate professor of philosophy at Stanford.[7] Friedman has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 1997.[8] Four of his articles have been selected as among the "ten best" of their year by the Philosopher's Annual. Philosophical work[edit] Friedman's initial work was on the nature of scientific explanation and the philosophy of physics. His first book on Foundations of Space-Time Theories published by Princeton University Press in 1983 won the Matchette Prize (what is now known as the "Book Prize") from the American Philosophical Association, to recognize work by a younger scholar. It also won the Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics to recognize outstanding work in philosophy of science. Kant and the Exact Sciences was described in Philosophical Review as "a very important book," "required reading for researchers on the relation between the exact sciences and Kant's philosophy."[9] Hans Sluga described Friedman's 2000 book on Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger as "eye-opening" and "ambitious," shedding new light on the split between analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy.[10] In his book Dynamics of Reason, Friedman "provides the fullest account to date not only of [his] neo-Kantian, historicized, dynamical conception of relativized a priori principles of mathematics and physics, but also of the pivotal role that [he] sees philosophy as playing in making scientific revolutions rational."[11] Notable Students[edit] Alan Richardson; Eric Winsberg; Andrew Janiak; Quayshawn Spencer Selected publications[edit] Books[edit] Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and the Philosophy of Science (Princeton University Press, 1983) Kant and the Exact Sciences (Harvard University Press, 1992) Reconsidering Logical Positivism (Cambridge University Press, 1999) A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (Open Court, 2000) Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001) Immanuel Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 2004) (editor) The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science (MIT Press, 2006) (co-editor with Alfred Nordmann) The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (2007) (co-editor with Richard Creath) Kant's Construction of Nature: A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 2013) Journal articles[edit] Friedman, Michael (June 1998). "Kantian themes in contemporary philosophy". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes. 72 (1): 111–130. doi:10.1111/1467-8349.00038. JSTOR 4107015.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) References[edit] ^ John R. Shook (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophy in America, 2016. ^ Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 96. ^ Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (CSLI/University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 45. ^ David Marshall Miller, Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 4 n. 2. ^ philosophy.stanford.edu: Michael Friedman'S CV ^ philosophy.stanford.edu: Michael Friedman Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine ^ hilosophy.stanford.edu ^ honorsandawards.iu.edu ^ jstor.org (2185822) ^ jstor.org (3649474) ^ jstor.org (40040756) External links[edit] Faculty profile at Stanford University Authority control BNE: XX935769 BNF: cb120560645 (data) CANTIC: a10793070 GND: 132032341 ISNI: 0000 0001 0931 5170 LCCN: n82122709 LNB: 000038281 NKC: jn20030714006 NLA: 36534436 NLI: 000049489 NLK: KAC201227198 NLP: A22421312 NSK: 000469842 NTA: 069544182 PLWABN: 9810673613605606 SNAC: w63c8mhr SUDOC: 028799224 VIAF: 108537659 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n82122709 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Friedman_(philosopher)&oldid=991361468" Categories: 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics Philosophers of cosmology Philosophers of science Living people Alexander von Humboldt Fellows 1947 births Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Philosopher's Annual Prize winners Lakatos Award winners Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Articles with hCards CS1 maint: ref=harv Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with LNB identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages العربية Deutsch فارسی مصرى Edit links This page was last edited on 29 November 2020, at 17:33 (UTC). 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