“The main Business of natural Philosophy” - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook “The main Business of natural Philosophy” write by Steffen Ducheyne. This book was released on 2011-10-20. “The main Business of natural Philosophy” available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton’s methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses procedures to minimize inductive risk during the process of theory formation and which, thereby, surpasses a standard hypothetico-deductive methodological setting. Accordingly, it will be highlighted that the so-called ‘Newtonian Revolution’ was not restricted to the empirical and theoretical dimensions of science, but applied equally to the methodological dimension of science. Furthermore, it will be documented that Newton’s methodology was far from static and that it developed alongside with his scientific work. Attention will be paid not only to the successes of Newton’s innovative methodology, but equally to its tensions and limitations. Based on a thorough study of Newton’s extant manuscripts, this monograph will address and contextualize, inter alia, Newton’s causal realism, his views on action at a distance and space and time, the status of efficient causation in the /Principia/, the different phases of his methodology, his treatment of force and the constituents of the physico-mathematical models in the context of Book I of the /Principia/, the analytic part of the argument for universal gravitation, the meaning and significance of his regulae philosophandi, the methodological differences between his mechanical and optical work, and, finally, the interplay between Newton’s theology and his natural philosophy.
A History of Natural Philosophy
A History of Natural Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Natural Philosophy write by Edward Grant. This book was released on 2007-01-29. A History of Natural Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy
The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy write by Sophie Roux. This book was released on 2012-09-26. The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy . Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces historians with a delicate task, if not an impossible mission. There were many natural philosophers who actually crossed the border between the two worlds, and, inside each of these worlds, there was a vast spectrum of doctrines, arguments and intellectual practices. The expression mechanical philosophy is burdened with ambiguities. It may refer to at least three different enterprises: a description of nature in mathematical terms; the comparison of natural phenomena to existing or imaginary machines; the use in natural philosophy of mechanical analogies, i.e. analogies conceived in terms of matter and motion alone.However mechanical philosophy is defined, its ambition was greater than its real successes. There were few mathematisations of phenomena. The machines of mechanical philosophers were not only imaginary, but had little to do with the machines of mecanicians. In most of the natural sciences, analogies in terms of matter and motion alone failed to provide satisfactory accounts of phenomena.By the same authors: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 254).
Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution
Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution write by Walter Roy Laird. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
Nature, the Soul, and God
Nature, the Soul, and God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature, the Soul, and God write by Jean W. Rioux. This book was released on 2004-04-14. Nature, the Soul, and God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complete title of one of the most famous works ever written, Isaac Newton's Principia, was actually Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or "The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy". Sadly, many contemporary philosophers would be hard-pressed to say just what natural philosophy (or philosophy of nature) is all about. Without question, the philosophy of nature has received relatively less attention than ethics and metaphysics for some time. In "Nature, the Soul, and God," Jean W. Rioux has brought together a number of important readings in natural philosophy, from the Pre-Socratic philosophers and Aristotle to the 19th-century entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre. Collectively, they present three ways in which one might conceive of the natural world in a pre-scientific reflection upon the way things are: either the classical materialism of Empedocles, Democritus, and Epicurus, the formalism of Plato, or the hylomorphic view espoused and defended by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. In the sections following the consideration of nature are selections from these representative views concerning the immortality of the soul and the existence of God. Through the medium of philosophers both ancient and modern, Rioux makes the point that one's philosophical account of the natural world will have an impact upon how one regards human nature, as well as divinity itself. It all begins with nature.
