David Hyder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Hyder |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Hyder |
| SIGNATURE | HYDER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Kant on Time II
Dieter Henrich’s “Notion of a Deduction” (1989) opened up approaches to both Deductions in terms of legal as opposed to syllogistic reasoning. Since the KrV is shot through with juridical metaphors and analogies, many points of connection suggest themselves. In this paper, I extend and modify Henrich’s approach, in order to extract a particular logic of evidence. I argue that the three syntheses of the A-Deduction correspond to parts of a deducti…
Three Paradoxes Concerning Causality and Time
Parmenides’ Poem on Nature contains a proof that the world could not have come into being in time, because no explanation could be given for why it would do so at a given time. This same proof reappears in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, where it is directed against Newtonian absolute time. Newtonians, Leibniz explains, believe that time is homogeneous and absolute, but this makes it inexplicable how God could have chosen to create the world o…
The world fully lost
Planetary Science in Higher Education
The paper investigates how planetary science could be integrated into other courses, specifically geography and astronomy, at two universities in Hungary and the UK. We carried out both a classroom course and an online course over several years. The methods used and the experiences gained, including feedback from students and useful examples for other educators, are summarized. We found that it is possible to integrate planetary science into geog…
Science and the Life-World
The determinate world
This study examines the place of Hermann von Helmholtz ́s seminal papers on geometry in his philosophy of science. The arguments of these papers are traced back to his prior work on the theory of magnitudes, as well as to Helmholtz ́s early, Kantian position. The author claims that Helmholtz should be understood not as opposing Kant, but as modifying the latter ́s theory of magnitudes so as to remove obstacles to their common project of construct…
The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism
A: The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism. What is the Vienna Circle? Some Methodological and Historiographical Answers F. Stadler. I: Origins and History. Pluralism of Tenable World Views A. Naess. On the Formation of Logical Empiricism P. Parrini. Bolzano's Account of Justification A. Von Duhn. Kantian Metaphysics and Hertzian Mechanics D.J. Hyder. II: Moritz Schlick. Moritz Schlick's Idea of Non-territorial States H. Schleichert. An Unknown …
Foucault, Cavaillès, and Husserl on the Historical Epistemology of the Sciences
This paper discusses the origins of two key notions in Foucault's work up to and including The Archaeology of Knowledge. The first of these notions is the notion of “archaeology” itself, a form of historical investigation of knowledge that is distinguished from the mere history of ideas in part by its unearthing what Foucault calls “historical a prioris”. Both notions, I argue, are derived from Husserlian phenomenology. But both are modified by F…
Physiological Optics and Physical Geometry
Argument Hermann von Helmholtz’s distinction between “pure intuitive” and “physical” geometry must be counted as the most influential of his many contributions to the philosophy of science. In a series of papers from the 1860s and 70s, Helmholtz argued against Kant’s claim that our knowledge of Euclidean geometry was an a priori condition for empirical knowledge. He claimed that geometrical propositions could be meaningful only if they were taken…
Helmholtz's Naturalized Conception of Geometry and his Spatial Theory of Signs
I analyze the two main theses of Helmholtz's “The Applicability of the Axioms to the Physical World,” in which he argued that the axioms of Euclidean geometry are not, as his neo-Kantian opponents had argued, binding on any experience of the external world. This required two argumentative steps: 1) a new account of the structure of our representations which was consistent both with the experience of our (for him) Euclidean world and with experien…
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Helmholtz's Naturalized Conception of Geometry and his Spatial Theory of Signs
I analyze the two main theses of Helmholtz's “The Applicability of the Axioms to the Physical World,” in which he argued that the axioms of Euclidean geometry are not, as his neo-Kantian opponents had argued, binding on any experience of the external world. This required two argumentative steps: 1) a new account of the structure of our representations which was consistent both with the experience of our (for him) Euclidean world and with experien…
Physiological Optics and Physical Geometry
Argument Hermann von Helmholtz’s distinction between “pure intuitive” and “physical” geometry must be counted as the most influential of his many contributions to the philosophy of science. In a series of papers from the 1860s and 70s, Helmholtz argued against Kant’s claim that our knowledge of Euclidean geometry was an a priori condition for empirical knowledge. He claimed that geometrical propositions could be meaningful only if they were taken…
The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism
A: The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism. What is the Vienna Circle? Some Methodological and Historiographical Answers F. Stadler. I: Origins and History. Pluralism of Tenable World Views A. Naess. On the Formation of Logical Empiricism P. Parrini. Bolzano's Account of Justification A. Von Duhn. Kantian Metaphysics and Hertzian Mechanics D.J. Hyder. II: Moritz Schlick. Moritz Schlick's Idea of Non-territorial States H. Schleichert. An Unknown …
Foucault, Cavaillès, and Husserl on the Historical Epistemology of the Sciences
This paper discusses the origins of two key notions in Foucault's work up to and including The Archaeology of Knowledge. The first of these notions is the notion of “archaeology” itself, a form of historical investigation of knowledge that is distinguished from the mere history of ideas in part by its unearthing what Foucault calls “historical a prioris”. Both notions, I argue, are derived from Husserlian phenomenology. But both are modified by F…
Science and the Life-World
The determinate world
This study examines the place of Hermann von Helmholtz ́s seminal papers on geometry in his philosophy of science. The arguments of these papers are traced back to his prior work on the theory of magnitudes, as well as to Helmholtz ́s early, Kantian position. The author claims that Helmholtz should be understood not as opposing Kant, but as modifying the latter ́s theory of magnitudes so as to remove obstacles to their common project of construct…
Planetary Science in Higher Education
The paper investigates how planetary science could be integrated into other courses, specifically geography and astronomy, at two universities in Hungary and the UK. We carried out both a classroom course and an online course over several years. The methods used and the experiences gained, including feedback from students and useful examples for other educators, are summarized. We found that it is possible to integrate planetary science into geog…
The world fully lost
Three Paradoxes Concerning Causality and Time
Parmenides’ Poem on Nature contains a proof that the world could not have come into being in time, because no explanation could be given for why it would do so at a given time. This same proof reappears in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, where it is directed against Newtonian absolute time. Newtonians, Leibniz explains, believe that time is homogeneous and absolute, but this makes it inexplicable how God could have chosen to create the world o…
Kant on Time II
Dieter Henrich’s “Notion of a Deduction” (1989) opened up approaches to both Deductions in terms of legal as opposed to syllogistic reasoning. Since the KrV is shot through with juridical metaphors and analogies, many points of connection suggest themselves. In this paper, I extend and modify Henrich’s approach, in order to extract a particular logic of evidence. I argue that the three syntheses of the A-Deduction correspond to parts of a deducti…
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