Abstract

AbstractErnst Cassirer’s epistemological trilogy –Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff(1910),Zur Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie(1921) andDeterminismus und Indeterminismus(1937) – is well known to Western scholars, some of whom recently devoted a number of in-depth and interesting studies to Cassirer’s epistemology. Nonetheless, they overlooked aspects of Cassirer’s concept of idealisation and his model of science as found in his last epistemological work:Determinismus und Indeterminismus. In this essay I will consider these two almost disregarded aspects of Cassirer’s epistemology in order to provide a better understanding of his idea of science.

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