Ernst Cassirer's Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Geometry
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To be published in a volume on Kantian philosophy in the 19th century, edited by Michael Friedman
The recent efforts to identify and analyse the neo-Kantian roots of logical positivism have primarily concentrated on the impact of the Marburg School on Carnap and Schlick. Among the Marburgers, attention focused primarily on Ernst Cassirer. From among the contemporaries of the neo-positivists he is commonly regarded as their leading representative. In view of the different currents of the man...
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