Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant : philosophy and science in the eighteenth century
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Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant : philosophy and science in the eighteenth century
(Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 220)
Kluwer Academic, c2001
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"Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2001. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2001" -- T.p. verso of softcover
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This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging avenues of 18th-century Newtonianism, the body-mind problem, and philosophical principles of classification in the life sciences. An appendix contains a critical edition and first translation into English of Newton's scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV through IX Book III of his Principia.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- W. Lefevre. Part One: Siesmic Vibrations in Metaphysics. 1. Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics
- A. Gabbey. Part Two: Metaphysics and the Analytical Method. 2. Leibniz' Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics
- H. Hecht. 3. The Limits of Intelligibility: The Status of Physical Sciences in d'Alemberts Philosophy
- F. De Gandt. 4. Order of Nature and Order of Science
- H. Pulte. Part Three: Avenues of Newtonianism. 5. Samuel Clarke's Annotations in Jacques Rohault's Traite de Physique, and How They Contributed to Popularising Newton's Physics
- V. Schuller. 6. Kant on Extension and Force: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton
- E. Watkins. 7. Enlightenment Scotland's Philosophico-Chemical Physics
- D. Wilson. Part Four: Can Matter Think? 8. Materialistic Theories of Mind and Brain
- A. Thomson. 9. Kant's Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think
- F. Wunderlich. Part Five: Metaphysics and Natural History. 10. Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification of Animals and Plants and its Philosophical Contexts
- W. Lefevre. Appendices.
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