Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century
This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset. As is well known, the interrelationship between philosophy and science underwent a profound change in the ea...
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| Language: | English |
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2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics (Alan Gabbey)
- 2. Leibniz’ Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics (Hartmut Hecht)
- 3. The Limits of Intelligibility: The Status of Physical Sciences in d’Alemberts Philosophy (François De Gandt)
- 4. “In Nature as in Geometry”: Du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects (Aaron Wells)
- 5. Order of Nature and Order of Science (Helmut Pulte)
- 6. Samuel Clarke’s Annotations in Jacques Rohault’s Traité de Physique, and How They Contributed to Popularising Newton’s Physics (Volkmar Schüller)
- 7. "Feigning Hypotheses”: non-Newtonian Approaches to Gravitation - Euler and Le Sage (Maria de Paz)
- 8. Kant on Extension and Force: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton (Eric Watkins)
- 9. Enlightenment Scotland’s Philosophico-Chemical Physics (David Wilson )
- 10. Materialistic Theories ofMind and Brain (Ann Thomson )
- 11. Kant’s Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think (Falk Wunderlich )
- 12. Cosmological Constellations: Varieties of Cosmology Available to Kant in 1755 (Stephen Howard)
- 13. Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification and its Philosophical Contexts (Wolfgang Lefèvre )
- 14. Beyond Newton, Leibniz, and Kant: Constrained Motion and New Conceptual Foundations, 1740-1800 (Marius Stan)
- Appendix 1.Newton’s scholia from David Gregory’s Estate on the Propositions IV trough IX Book III of his Principia
- Appendix 2. The Concepts of Immanuel Kant’s Natural Philosophy (1747-1780): A Database Rendering their Explicit and Implicit Networks