Mechanism And Materialism

Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400871025

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Mechanism and Materialism by Robert E. Schofield Pdf

Robert Schofield explores the rational elements of British experimental natural philosophy in the 18th century by tracing the influence of two opposing concepts of the nature of matter and its action—mechanism and materialism. Both concepts rested on the Newtonian interpretation of their proponents, although each developed more or less independently. By integrating the developments in all the areas of experimental natural philosophy, describing their connections and the influences of Continental science, natural theology, and to a lesser degree social and institutional changes, the author demonstrates that mechanistic concepts dominated interpretations from about 1687 to 1740, when they were replaced by materialistic concepts. A revival of the mechanistic approach early in the next century made England a fertile field for ideas on the dynamic interaction of forces. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:72090960

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Mechanism and Materialism by Robert E. Schofield Pdf

Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OCLC:51520672

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Mechanism and Materialism by Robert E. Schofield Pdf

Author : Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691173719

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After Hegel by Frederick C. Beiser Pdf

Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half—when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel's death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline. But Frederick Beiser argues that the second half of the century was in fact one of the most revolutionary periods in modern philosophy because the nature of philosophy itself was up for grabs and the very absence of certainty led to creativity and the start of a new era. In this innovative concise history of German philosophy from 1840 to 1900, Beiser focuses not on themes or individual thinkers but rather on the period’s five great debates: the identity crisis of philosophy, the materialism controversy, the methods and limits of history, the pessimism controversy, and the Ignorabimusstreit. Schopenhauer and Wilhelm Dilthey play important roles in these controversies but so do many neglected figures, including Ludwig Büchner, Eugen Dühring, Eduard von Hartmann, Julius Fraunstaedt, Hermann Lotze, Adolf Trendelenburg, and two women, Agnes Taubert and Olga Pluemacher, who have been completely forgotten in histories of philosophy. The result is a wide-ranging, original, and surprising new account of German philosophy in the critical period between Hegel and the twentieth century.

Author : Charles T. Wolfe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319248202

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Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction by Charles T. Wolfe Pdf

This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective. It is, thus, a study in the history and philosophy of materialism, with a particular focus on the early modern and Enlightenment periods, leading into the 19th and 20th centuries. For it was in the 18th century that the word was first used by a philosopher (La Mettrie) to refer to himself. Prior to that, ‘materialism’ was a pejorative term, used for wicked thinkers, as a near-synonym to ‘atheist’, ‘Spinozist’ or the delightful ‘Hobbist’. The book provides the different forms of materialism, particularly distinguished into claims about the material nature of the world and about the material nature of the mind, and then focus on materialist approaches to body and embodiment, selfhood, ethics, laws of nature, reductionism and determinism, and overall, its relationship to science. For materialism is often understood as a kind of philosophical facilitator of the sciences, and the author want to suggest that is not always the case. Materialism takes on different forms and guises in different historical, ideological and scientific contexts as well, and the author wants to do justice to that diversity. Figures discussed include Lucretius, Hobbes, Gassendi, Spinoza, Toland, Collins, La Mettrie, Diderot, d’Holbach and Priestley; Büchner, Bergson, J.J.C. Smart and D.M. Armstrong.

Author : Sarah Ellenzweig,John H Zammito
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351976145

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The New Politics of Materialism by Sarah Ellenzweig,John H Zammito Pdf

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Instead it gives weight to topics often overlooked in such accounts: agency, vitalism, complexity, contingency, and self-organization. This collection, which includes an international roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature, and science, is the first to ask what is "new" about the new materialism and place it in interdisciplinary perspective. Against current theories of new materialism it argues for a deeper engagement with materialism's history, questions whether matter can be "lively," and asks whether new materialism's wish to revitalize politics and the political lives up to its promise. Contributors: Keith Ansell-Pearson, Sarah Ellenzweig, Christian J. Emden, N. Katherine Hayles, Jess Keiser, Mogens Laerke, Ian Lowrie, Lenny Moss, Angela Willey, Catherine Wilson, Charles T. Wolfe, Derek Woods, and John H. Zammito.

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521204674

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Legitimation of Belief by Ernest Gellner Pdf

"The main aim of this thoughtful and thought-provoking book is to characterize and explain the difference between pre-scientific systems of belief within which science could, and did, emerge and develop. Using the armoury of both philosophy and anthropology, Ernest Gellner attacks his task with his customary sharp wit and polemical gusto." - Times Literary Supplement.

Author : Sarah Ellenzweig,John H Zammito
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351976152

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The New Politics of Materialism by Sarah Ellenzweig,John H Zammito Pdf

New materialism challenges conventional theories of understanding human being and subjectivity, which it regards as shaped by mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive. Instead it gives weight to topics often overlooked in such accounts: the body, the role of affect and the emotions, gender, temporality, agency and vitalism. This collection, which includes an international roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature and science, is the first to ask what is 'new' about the new materialism and place it in interdisciplinary perspective. Against current theories of new materialism it argues for a deeper engagement with materialism's history; questions whether matter can be 'lively'; and asks whether new materialism's wish to revitalize of politics and the political lives up to its promise.

Author : John W. Yolton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816660582

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Thinking Matter by John W. Yolton Pdf

Thinking Matter was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This book, a reevaluation of a major issue in modern philosophy, explores the controversy that grew out of John Locke's suggestion, in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), that God could give to matter the power of thought. The concept of "thinking matter," as Locke's notion came to be described, offered a threat to those who held orthodox beliefs, especially to their views on the nature and immortality of the soul. In Thinking Matter,John Yolton traces this controversy from theologian Ralph Cudworth's 1678 manifesto, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein, All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated — an attack on ancient versions of naturalism—down to the philosophical and scientific studies of Joseph Priestley in the late eighteenth century.

Author : Afia Khalid,Faisal Qadeer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351256902

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Rising Consumer Materialism by Afia Khalid,Faisal Qadeer Pdf

Rising Consumer Materialism presents a theoretical advancement of materialism research. It identifies eight areas of a consumer's life that are inter-disciplinary and of prime importance towards promoting happy and rewarding lifestyles. This study examines the pre-planned purchase process as the primary step towards satisfactory consumption. The theoretical framework provides a stream of research possibilities that guide readers towards healthy consumption patterns. Therefore, the book offers practical solutions to problems such as loneliness and unhappiness. It advocates a new dimension of consumption activity and lifestyle choices that can help to re-socialize and improve social bonds; hitting materialism right at its core, making the consumption experience well informed and beneficial for the consumer as well as society. Together, pre-planned engaging, intrinsic experiential purchases with a view to environmentalism, religiosity, social giving, social support and nostalgia can cure the excessive emphasis on acquiring and showing off valuables that are disruptive to a consumer’s social affiliations and subjective wellbeing. Rather than utilizing material possessions as a proxy measure for success and happiness resulting in only temporary happiness, discontent, continuous brand/product switching, undesirable post purchase evaluations and shifting brand loyalties, the book establishes alternative mechanisms for achieving happiness. The integrated framework provides a comprehensive solution rather than a half-baked specific situational-based intervention and is a must read for academics, students and consumers alike.

Author : Robert C. Koons,George Bealer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191614019

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The Waning of Materialism by Robert C. Koons,George Bealer Pdf

Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent versions and defences of materialism. The modal arguments of Kripke and Chalmers, Jackson’s knowledge argument, Kim’s exclusion problem, and Burge’s anti-individualism all play a part in the building of a powerful cumulative case against the materialist research program. Several papers address the implications of contemporary brain and cognitive research (the psychophysics of color perception, blindsight, and the effects of commissurotomies), adding a posteriori arguments to the classical a priori critique of reductionism. All of the current versions of materialism — reductive and non-reductive, functionalist, eliminativist, and new wave materialism — come under sustained and trenchant attack. In addition, a wide variety of alternatives to the materialist conception of the person receive new and illuminating attention, including anti-materialist versions of naturalism, property dualism, Aristotelian and Thomistic hylomorphism, and non-Cartesian accounts of substance dualism.

Author : Isabel Rivers,David L. Wykes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191526893

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Joseph Priestley by Isabel Rivers,David L. Wykes Pdf

Joseph Priestley was one of the most remarkable thinkers of the eighteenth century. Best known today as the scientist who discovered oxygen, he also made major contributions in the fields of education, politics, philosophy, and theology. This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. The book will re-establish him as a major intellectual figure in Britain and America in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791492611

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Religion and Scientific Naturalism by David Ray Griffin Pdf

Winner of the 2000 Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize In this book, David Ray Griffin argues that the perceived conflict between science and religion is based upon a double mistake-the assumption that religion requires supernaturalism and that scientific naturalism requires atheism and materialism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : M. H. De Young
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Truth And Synergism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198737094

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Locke's Touchy Subjects by Nicholas Jolley Pdf

Nicholas Jolley shows that the mind-body problem and the nature of personal immortality are more central to Locke's philosophy than has been realized. He argues that Locke takes up unorthodox positions in both cases, and holds that Locke's criticisms of Descartes were controversial responses to challenging metaphysical and theological issues.