Helmholtz, Cohen, and Frege on Progress and Fidelity

This book examines the views of Hermann Helmholtz, Hermann Cohen and Gottlob Frege in reaction to the epistemic crises induced by rapid changes in 19^th century scientific practice. Besides addressing longstanding interpretive puzzles of interest to Frege scholars, the book extracts precepts for rationally responding to paradigm shifts in scientific and religious traditions. Cohen’s work in particular is held up as an example of wisely navigating epistemic and hermeneutical crises in science and religion. The book will appeal to philosophers and historians of science or religion, especially to those concerned with the epistemic challenges posed by Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.  

• Kant's epistemology
• cognitive synthesis
• Kantian concepts
• concepts and intuitions
• creative abstraction
• science and ethics
• Lockean enthusiasm
• science of perception
• neo-kantianism
• progress and fidelity

• Department of Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, USA

  Teri Merrick

Teri Merrick received her PhD from the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at University of California, Irvine. She is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. Her publications, which include works on philosophy of mathematics, the role of the emotions in science and religion, and feminist and postcolonial perspectives on science, have appeared in Philosophia Mathematica, Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Christian Scholar’s Review, InterVarsity Press and Oxford University Press.

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