Where does Friedman himself fit in to the sequence of philosophers in the aftermath of the Einsteinian revolution: Carnap, Cassirer, Husserl, Kuhn,…
…where Cassirer has characterized a necessary transcendental ideal or endpoint for the historical sequence, Husserl (here more explicitly following Kant himself) has characterized a necessary origin in transcendental subjectivity–in the immediately given “subjective-relative” form of the life-world. Yet, once again, this can tell us nothing specific about any given stage in the development of the mathematical-physical sciences, and, in particular, it would seem that it cannot transcendentally illuminate the historical process by which the empirical meaning of any given stage is actually constituted. One way of understanding my own project for an essentially historical form of transcendental philosophy–which I call the dynamics of reason–is as an attempt to resolve precisely this problem. (Domski essay, p.696)
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