Metaphysics And Philosophy Of Science In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries

Author : R.S. Woolhouse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400929975

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Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by R.S. Woolhouse Pdf

The essays in this collection have been written for Gerd Buchdahl, by colleagues, students and friends, and are self-standing pieces of original research which have as their main concern the metaphysics and philosophy of science of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They focus on issues about the development of philosophical and scientific thought which are raised by or in the work of such as Bernoulli, Descartes, Galileo, Kant, Leibniz, Maclaurin, Priestly, Schelling, Vico. Apart from the initial bio-bibliographical piece and those by Robert Butts and Michael Power, they do not discuss Buchdahl or his ideas in any systematic, lengthy, or detailed way. But they are collected under a title which alludes to the book, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science: The Classical Origins, Descartes to Kant (1969), which is central in the corpus of his work, and deal with the period and some of the topics with which that book deals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : OCLC:1330614579

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Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Anonim Pdf

Author : John W. Yolton
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1878822411

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Philosophy, Religion and Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by John W. Yolton Pdf

There are two main groups of essays in this volume. The first centres on Locke's theories of religion and their relation to contemporary scientific thought and the work of Descartes, Leibniz and Hume. The second group explores the relation between biology and physiology, and the science of man.

Author : Michael Funk Deckard,Peter Losonczi
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780227903353

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Philosophy Begins in Wonder by Michael Funk Deckard,Peter Losonczi Pdf

Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. Yet Plato and Aristotle did not expand a great deal on what precisely wonder is. Does this fact alone not raise curiosity in us as to why this passion or concept is important? What is wonder's role in science, philosophy, or theology except to end thinking or theorizing as soon as one begins? The primary purpose of this book is to show how seventeenth- and eighteenth-century developments in natural theology, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science resulted in a complex history of the passion of wonder-a history in which the elements of continuation, criticism, and reformulation are equally present. Philosophy Begins in Wonder provides the first historical overview of wonder and changes the way we see early modern Europe. It is intended for readers who are curious-who wonder-about how modern philosophy and science were born. The book is for scholars and educated readers alike.

Author : Sarah Hutton
Publisher : Oxford History of Philosophy
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199586110

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British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century by Sarah Hutton Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy of the 17th Century provides an advanced comprehensive overview of the issues that are informing research on the subject of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, while at the same time offering new directions for research to take. It covers the whole of the seventeenth century, ranging from Francis Bacon to John Locke and Isaac Newton. The book contains five parts: the introductory Part I examines the state of the discipline and the nature of its practitioners as the century unfolded; Part II discusses the leading natural philosophers and the philosophy of nature, including Bacon, Boyle, and Newton; Part III covers knowledge and the human faculty of the understanding; Part IV explores the leading topics in British moral philosophy from the period; and Part V concerns political philosophy. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts, such as Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan, it discusses many less-well-known figures and debates from the period whose importance is only now being appreciated."--Publisher's description.

Author : Keith Michael Baker,Jenna M. Gibbs
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442630246

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Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century by Keith Michael Baker,Jenna M. Gibbs Pdf

Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world.

Author : Abraham Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429594960

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A History of Science Technology and Philosophy in the 18th Century by Abraham Wolf Pdf

Published in 1938: The new volume presents a full and profusely illustrated account of progress made during the eighteenth century in Mathematics, Mechanics, Astronomy, Physics, Meteorology, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Psychology, Demography, Economics, Philosophy, and Technology.

Author : Abraham Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313108918

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A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries by Abraham Wolf Pdf

Author : G.H.R. Parkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134938735

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Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV by G.H.R. Parkinson Pdf

The philosophy discussed in this volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: the birth of modern philosophy. The chief topics are Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism - in particular Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The volume does not deal with these movements exclusively, but places them within a wider intellectual context. It considers the scholastic thought with which Renaissance philosophy interacted; it also considers the thought of seventeenth century philosophers such as Bacon, Hobbes and Gassendi, who were not rationalists but whose thought elicited responses from the rationalists. It considers, too, the important topic of the rise of modern science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and its relations to the philosophy of the period. This volume provides a broad, scholarly introduction to this period for students of philosophy and related disciplines, as well as some original interpretations of these authors. It includes a glossary of technical terms and a chronological table of philosophical, scientific and other cultural events.

Author : Don Ross,James Ladyman,Harold Kincaid
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191641558

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Scientific Metaphysics by Don Ross,James Ladyman,Harold Kincaid Pdf

Scientific Metaphysics collects original essays by some of the world's leading philosophers of science on the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalized—that is, conducted as a part of natural science. Some people will think that the idea of naturalized metaphysics is a contradiction in terms, on the grounds that metaphysics is by definition about matters that transcend the domain of empirical inquiry. Most of the authors here disagree, and hold that if metaphysics is to hold out any prospect of identifying objective truths, it must be continuous with and inspired by science. Many go further, and argue that it should be conducted in such a way as to be of some positive use to science. But beyond this each contributor differs with one another on numerous points of detail and emphasis. The essays presented here offer various points of view on the relationship between naturalized metaphysics, more traditional forms of metaphysics, and the wider history of philosophy. The discussions are rich in examples drawn from across the sciences: physics, biology, economics, psychology and others. Several chapters explore new ideas about the complex relationships between metaphysics, physics, and mathematics. At stake, in the end, is the question of whether metaphysics should give way to science and disappear from contemporary inquiry, or continue as an activity that unifies the particular sciences into a single naturalistic worldview.

Author : Roger Woolhouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134877065

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Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz by Roger Woolhouse Pdf

This book introduces student to the three major figures of modern philosophy known as the rationalists. It is not for complete beginners, but it is an accessible account of their thought. By concerning itself with metaphysics, and in particular substance, the book relates an important historical debate largely neglected by the contemporary debates in the once again popular area of traditional metaphysics. in philosophy.

Author : John Shand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317494386

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Central Works of Philosophy v2 by John Shand Pdf

Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to Quine's Word and Object, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers, each of them primary texts studied at undergraduate level. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance then and now. Each essay equips the reader with the resources and confidence to go on to read the works themselves. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpleces of the western philosophical canon and some of the greatest minds that have ever lived talking about the profoundest most exciting problems there are. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw a brilliant outpouring of philosophical thought unprecedented in human history. Together philosophy and science pushed medieval and Renaissance scholasticism aside to lay the foundations of the modern world. Beginning with Descartes' Meditations, the contributors examine some of the period's most seminal philosophical texts: Spinoza's Ethics, which presents a complete picture of reality that has at its heart how we can be good, the Monadology, in which Leibniz describes what must underpin reality if it is to be fully explained, Hobbes' Leviathan, which reminds us of the dangers of the unchecked brutality of humanity; Rousseau's Social Contract, a vision of how human nature can be changed for the better in a new society, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding which wishes us to grasp that we must make knowledge our own through experience not authority, Berkeley's attack on materialism in his Treatise and Hume's search for rational justification for our most basic beliefs about the world in his Treatise of Human Nature. Together these essays offer students a remarkable survey of the key texts and core ideas that make up the age of rationalism and empiricism.

Author : Ezio Vailati
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 9780195113990

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Leibniz & Clarke by Ezio Vailati Pdf

The correspondence between Leibniz and Samuel Clarke (1715-??) was probably the most famous and influential philosophical exchange of the eighteenth century. It focused on the clash between the Newtonian and Leibnizian world systems, involving disputes in physics, theology, and metaphysics. The letters ranged over an extraordinary array of topics: divine immensity and eternity, the relation of God to the world, the soul and its relation to the body, free will, space and time, the nature of miracles, the nature of matter, the existence of atoms and the void, the size of the universe, and the nature of motive force. Vailati's book provides a comprehensive overview and commentary on this important body of letters. He not only identifies and evaluates the various arguments, but situates the views advanced by the correspondents in the context of their principal writings.

Author : Wolfgang Lefèvre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031343407

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Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant by Wolfgang Lefèvre Pdf

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.

Author : James M. Lawler
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1580462219

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Matter and Spirit by James M. Lawler Pdf

This narrative shows how the contours of moral and political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were shaped by Kant's two distinct philosophical responses to the results of modern science. This history of early modern Western philosophy takes its inspiration from Kant's claim that the battle between the metaphysics of matter and that of spirit is the principal axis around which modern philosophy up to his time, in all its aspects, has revolved. The empiricist-materialist trend that dominates in England is first examined in the progressively unfolding works of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Adam Smith. A contrasting and competing dialectic develops in the rationalist/spiritualist trend in the continental philosophy of Descartes, Leibniz, and Rousseau. Framing this history is the background context of the philosophy and science of Aristotle and the challenges to the traditional paradigm presented by the revolutionary sciences of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. James Lawler is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo.