Philosophical Perspectives On Newtonian Science

Author : Phillip Bricker
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262023016
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science written by Phillip Bricker and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original essays explore the philosophical implications of Newton's work. They address a wide range of topics including Newton's influence on his contemporaries and successors such as Locke and Kant, and his views on the methodology of science, on absolute space and time, and on the Deity.Howard Stein compares Newton's refusal to lock natural philosophy into a preexisting system with the more rigid philosophical predilections of his near-contemporaries Christian Huygens and John Locke. Richard Arthur's commentary provides a useful gloss on Stein's essay. Lawrence Sklar puzzles over Newton's attempts to provide a unified treatment of the various "real quantities": absolute space, time, and motion. According to Phillip Bricker's responding essay, however, the distinctions Sklar draws do not go to the heart of the debate between realists and representationalists.J. E. McGuire and John Carriero debate Newtons views of the relationship between the Deity and the nature of time and space. Peter Achinstein looks at the tension between Newton's methodological views and his advocacy of a corpuscular theory of light; he suggests that Newton could justify the latter by a "weak" inductive inference, but R.I.G. Hughes believes that this inference involves an induction Newton would be unwilling to make. Immanuel Kant's critique of Newton's view of gravity is discussed and amplified by Michael Friedman In response, Robert DiSalle raises a number of problems for Friedman's analysis. Errol Harris and Philip Grier extend the discussion to the present day and look at the ethical implications of Newton's work.Phillip Bricker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. R.I.G. Hughes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science is included in the Johns Hopkins Series on the History and Philosophy of Science.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 8184306601
Total Pages : 615 pages
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Download or read book A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy written by Anonymous and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1758-01-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manner; in which Sir Isaac Newton has published his philosophical discoveries; occasions them to lie very much concealed from all; who have not made the mathematics particularly their study. He once; indeed; intended to deliver; in a more familiar way; that part of his inventions; which relates to the system of the world; but upon farther consideration he altered his design. -Introduction

Author : Henry Margenau
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Total Pages : 282 pages
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Author : Roger H. Stuewer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9782881243509
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book Historical and Philosophical Perspectives of Science written by Roger H. Stuewer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : William L. Harper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019957040X
Total Pages : 443 pages
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Download or read book Isaac Newton's Scientific Method written by William L. Harper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-410) and index.

Author : Andrew Janiak
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140518728X
Total Pages : 213 pages
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Download or read book Newton written by Andrew Janiak and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newton is an evocative intellectual history of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton the natural philosopher, covering his influential thoughts about philosophical problems, our knowledge of nature, and even the nature of the divine. Offers a comprehensive and highly accessible introduction to the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, emphasizing his influential contributions to the field of philosophy Covers the principal philosophical topics that captivated Newton’s mind, from our knowledge of nature to the nature of the divine Includes the most recent and innovative research regarding Newton’s views on theology and philosophy Emphasizes the philosophical importance of Newton’s work to the history of philosophy and his engagement with the ideas of both historic and contemporary figures such as Galileo and Descartes, Leibniz and Locke

Author : John Losee
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198700555
Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science written by John Losee and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Losee provides a balanced and engaging survey of the development of views about scientific method. Ideal for those coming to the subject for the first time, this fully updated new edition incorporates discussion on contemporary debates, including philosophy of biology, normative naturalism, theory appraisal, experimental practice, and scientific realism. Concise profiles of the major philosophers discussed within the text are provided, including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Whewell, Hempel, and Kuhn.

Author : Michael Ben-Chaim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351937758
Total Pages : 309 pages
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Download or read book Experimental Philosophy and the Birth of Empirical Science written by Michael Ben-Chaim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did empirical research become the cornerstone of modern science? Scholars have traditionally associated empirical research with the search for knowledge, but have failed to provide adequate solutions to this basic historical problem. This book offers a different approach that focuses on human understanding - rather than knowledge - and its cultural expression in the creation and social transaction of causal explanations. Ancient Greek philosophers professed that genuine understanding of a particular subject was gained only when its nature, or essence, was defined. This ancient mode of explanation furnished the core teachings of late medieval natural philosophers, and was reaffirmed by early modern philosophers such as Bacon and Descartes. Yet during the second half of the 17th century, radical transformation gave rise to innovative research practices that were designed to explain how empirical properties of the physical world were correlated. The study unfolded in this book centres on the works of Robert Boyle, John Locke, and Isaac Newton - the most notable exponents of the 'experimental philosophy' in the late 17th century - to explore how this transformation led to the emergence of a recognizably modern culture of empirical research. Relating empirical with explanatory practices, this book offers a novel solution to one of the major problems in the history of western science and philosophy. It thereby provides a new perspective on the Scientific Revolution and the origins of modern empiricism. At the same time, this book demonstrates how historical and sociological tools can be combined to study science as an evolving institution of human understanding.

Author : Steffen Ducheyne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400721269
Total Pages : 367 pages
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Download or read book “The main Business of natural Philosophy” written by Steffen Ducheyne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Matias Slavov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350087882
Total Pages : 217 pages
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Download or read book Hume's Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science written by Matias Slavov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contextualizes David Hume's philosophy of physical science, exploring both Hume's background in the history of early modern natural philosophy and its subsequent impact on the scientific tradition. Drawing on Cartesian cosmology and Einstein's special relativity, and taking in topics including experimentalism, causation, laws of nature, metaphysics of forces, mathematics' relation to nature, and the concepts of space and time, this book deepens our understanding of Hume's relation to natural philosophy. It does so in addition by situating Hume's thought within the context of other major philosophers and scientists, including Descartes, Locke, Boyle, Kant, Newton, and Leibniz. Demonstrating above all Hume's understanding of the fluid relationship between philosophy and science, Hume's Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science will provide new insights for historians and philosophers of science.