title: Realism, functions, and the a priori: Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of science.
abstract: This paper presents the main ideas of Cassirer's general philosophy of science, focusing on the two aspects of his thought that--in addition to being the most central ideas in his philosophy of science--have received the most attention from contemporary philosophers of science: his theory of the a priori aspects of physical theory, and his relation to scientific realism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Logic and Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. jheis@uci.edu
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heis
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010684:Philosophy; D012586:Science