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THIS book is a study of the important problem of the relation between the space-time theory of Kant's “Critique of Pure Reason “and the relativist theory of Einstein. The author, who is of Dutch nationality, has already written essays on the subject in his native language. The present extensive study in German is based on the works of the late Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp, and more especially on the recent work of Prof. Ernst Cassirer, to whom the book is dedicated. Cassirer's “Substance and Function “was reviewed in NATURE of August 9, p. 187. The transcendental aesthetic theory of Kant was founded on the classical mechanics of Newton, and intended to give the philosophical basis of Newton's concepts of absolute space, time, and velocity. There is no more important problem in contemporary philosophy than to determine whether and how far Kant's doctrine can be adapted to the new physics.
Kant und Einstein: Untersuchungen über das Verhältnis der modernen Erkenntnistheorie zur Relativitätstheorie.
Von Dr. Alfred C. Elsbach. Pp. viii + 374. (Berlin und Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter und Co., 1924.) 8s.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 114, 748 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114748c0
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