Actuality of transcendental æsthetics for modern physics

Jean Petitot

pp. 273-304

in: Luciano Boi, Dominique Flament, Jean-Michel Salanskis (eds), 1830–1930: a century of geometry, Berlin, Springer, 1992

Abstract

The more mathematics and physics unify themselves in the physico-mathematical modern theories, the more an objective epistemology becomes necessary. Only such a transcendental epistemology is able to thematize correctly the status of the mathematical determination of physical reality.