Kant’s Philosophy of Chemistry and Nietzsche’s Cosmology. Part II: Chemistry as a Science, the Alchemy of Economics, and Spiritual Gold
... Journal”, vol. 44, no. 3), this article reviews Kant’s dismissal of chemistry as a ‘proper’ science in light of his specific examples (instancing Stahl’s spagyric experiments, cinnabar, and gold) to argue that understanding Kant requires an historical hermeneutical approach to science. Close textual analysis of Kant’s writings is compared with an historically-informed reading of early modern chemistry and alchemy, which looks at Stahl, Boyle, Paneth, discussions by historians and philosophers of science,...
