Michael Friedman

Education

Friedman earned his Bachelor of Arts from Queens College, City University of New York in New York in 1969 and his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1973.

Career

He is now Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. Before moving to Stanford in 2002, Friedman taught at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Indiana University. Friedman has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 1997.

Four of his articles have been selected as among the "ten best" of their year by the Philosopher"s Annual.

Friedman"s initial work was on the nature of scientific explanation and the philosophy of physics. 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." In his book Dynamics of Reason, Friedman "provides the fullest account to date not only of neo-Kantian, historicized, dynamical conception of relativized a priori principles of mathematics and physics, but also of the pivotal role that sees philosophy as playing in making scientific revolutions rational.".

Achievements

• 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. lieutenant also won the Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics to recognize outstanding work in philosophy of science.

Works

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  • A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger

    ( Beginning with a confrontation in 1929 in Switzerland, ...)

  • Reconsidering Logical Positivism

    (In this collection of essays one of the preeminent philos...)

  • Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science

    ( This book, explores the conceptual foundations of Einst...)

  • Kant and the Exact Sciences

    ( Kant sought throughout his life to provide a philosoph...)

  • A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger by Friedman, Michael(November 30, 2000) Paperback

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  • Reconsidering Logical Positivism by Michael Friedman (1999-07-28)

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  • Reconsidering Logical Positivism Paperback - July 28, 1999

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger by Michael Friedman (2000-11-30)
  • Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science (Princeton Legacy Library) by Michael Friedman (2014-07-14)
  • Kant and the Exact Sciences by Michael Friedman (1992-05-01)

Views

Friedman has also done important work on figures in Continental philosophy such as Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer. 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. Reconsidering Logical Positivism (Cambridge University Press, 1999).