Michael Friedman is a philosopher of science interested in Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

 and the post-analytic

Postanalytic philosophy

Post-analytic philosophy describes a detachment from the mainstream philosophical movement of analytic philosophy, which is the predominant school of thought in English-speaking countries. Postanalytic philosophy derives mainly from contemporary American thought, especially from the works of...

 movement in philosophy. Friedman earned his A.B from Queen's College in New York and his PhD

PHD

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 from Princeton University

Princeton University

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. He is Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. Before moving to Stanford, Friedman taught at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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, University of Illinois Chicago, and Indiana University

Indiana University

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. His students include Alan Richardson and Andrew Janiak

Andrew Janiak

Andrew Janiak is a professor of philosophy at Duke University, where he directs the Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science. He received an M.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D from Indiana University. His dissertation was directed by Michael Friedman...

.

Selected publications

• Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and the Philosophy of Science (1983)
• Kant and the Exact Sciences (1992)
• Reconsidering Logical Positivism (1999)
• A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (2000)
• Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (2001)
• Immanuel Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (2004)
• The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science (2006)
• The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (2007)

External links

• Faculty profile at Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...