Selected Philosophical Papers Of Robert Boyle

Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872201224
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyle written by Robert Boyle and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The availability of a paperback version of Boyle's philosophical writings selected by M. A. Stewart will be a real service to teachers, students, and scholars with seventeenth-century interests. The editor has shown excellent judgment in bringing together many of the most important works and printing them, for the most part, in unabridged form. The texts have been edited responsibly with emphasis on readability. . . . Of special interest in connection with Locke and with the reception of Descarte's Corpuscularianism, to students of the Scientific Revolution and of the history of mechanical philosophy, and to those interested in the relations among science, philosophy, and religion. In fact, given the imperfections in and unavailability of the eighteenth-century editions of Boyle's works, this collection will benefit a wide variety of seventeenth-century scholars." --Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania

Author : Michael Cyril William Hunter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754655688
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boyle Papers written by Michael Cyril William Hunter and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers, letters and ancillary manuscripts of the influential scientist, Robert Boyle (1627-91) have been at the Royal Society since 1769--a catalogue of them first published in 1992. This volume presents that catalogue in completely revised form, updated to do justice to the extensive use made of the archive in the definitive editions of Boyle's Works and Correspondence published between 1999 and 2001. The book also includes studies of the history of the archive and its components, in which significant conclusions are drawn about the development of Boyle's ideas. This book will be indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in Boyle.

Author : Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197502520
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle written by Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Boyle (1627-1691) believed that a reductionist conception of the mechanical philosophy threatened the heuristic power and autonomy of chemistry as an experimental science. While some historical and philosophical scholars have examined his nuanced position, understanding the chemical philosophy he developed through his own experimental work is incredibly difficult even for experts in the field. In The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle, Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino energetically explains Boyle's ideas in a whole new light and proposes that Boyle regarded chemical qualities as non-reducible dispositional and relational properties that emerge from, and supervene upon, the mechanistic structure of chymical atoms. Banchetti-Robino demonstrates that these ideas are implicit in Boyle's writing, making his philosophical contributions crucial to the fields of both philosophy and chemistry. The arguments presented are further strengthened by a detailed mereological analysis of Boylean chymical atoms as chemically elementary entities, which establishes the theory of wholes and parts that is most consistent with an emergentist conception of chemical properties. More generally, this book examines the way in which Boyle sought to accommodate his complex chemical philosophy within the framework of the 17th century mechanistic theory of matter. Banchetti-Robino conceptualizes Boyle's experimental work as a scientific research programme, in the Lakatosian sense, to better explain the positive and negative heuristic function of the mechanistic theory of matter within his chemical philosophy. The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle actively engages with the contemporary and lively debates over the nature of Boyle's ideas about structural chemistry, fundamental mechanistic particles and properties, the explanatory power of subordinate causes, the complex relation between fundamental particles, natural kinds, and unified chemical wholes. The book is a rich historical account that begins with the dominant paradigms of 16th and 17th Century chemical philosophy and takes readers all the way through to the 21st Century.

Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809315222
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle written by Robert Boyle and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major collection of Boyle's writings to be published since Thomas Birch's eighteenth-century edition of his works presents material hitherto available only in the archives of the Royal Society. This edition of Boyle's Aretology (the study of moral virtue) and other moral essays from the late 1640s offers the intellectual and religious origins of Boyle's most vital themes. John T. Harwood also includes two essays on moral topics, "Of Sin" and "Of Piety"; a sample of Boyle's private meditations, "Joseph's Mistress"; a short essay, "Of Time and Idleness"; and two guides to private meditation, "The Dayly Reflection" and "Of Thoughts." Harwood concludes the volume with a previously unpublished account of about seven hundred books in Boyle's library at the time of his death.

Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567961
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature written by Robert Boyle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important treatise by one of the leading mechanical philosophers of the seventeenth century.

Author : Emilie Du Châtelet
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226168085
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings written by Emilie Du Châtelet and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica that is still the standard edition of that work in French. Had she been a man, her reputation as a member of the eighteenth-century French intellectual elite would have been assured. In the 1970s, feminist historians of science began the slow work of recovering Du Châtelet’s writings and her contributions to history and philosophy. For this edition, Judith P. Zinsser has selected key sections from Du Châtelet’s published and unpublished works, as well as related correspondence, part of her little-known critique of the Old and New Testaments, and a treatise on happiness that is a refreshingly uncensored piece of autobiography—making all of them available for the first time in English. The resulting volume will recover Châtelet’s place in the pantheon of French letters and culture.

Author : Peter R. Anstey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134592035
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Robert Boyle written by Peter R. Anstey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Walter Ott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199570434
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy written by Walter Ott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy is a study of one of the most important debates in 17th- and 18th-century philosophy: the nature of causation. Ott offers controversial readings of such canonical figures as Descartes, Locke, and Hume, and explores related topics such as intentionality, necessity, and relations.

Author : Jan-Erik Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135002936X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Robert Boyle written by Jan-Erik Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Boyle, well known in scientific circles, has still not received the credit he deserves in philosophy. A leader in experimental philosophy, his interests range from morality and philosophy of religion to epistemology and the philosophy of science. The Bloomsbury Companion to Robert Boyle brings together the latest work on the lesser known aspects of Boyle's philosophy, alongside some of his best known views, and surveys the full range of his philosophy for the first time. Situating Boyle within the philosophical and scientific traditions and introducing his zeal for experiment and commitment to the improvement of humanity, chapters reveal how crucial chemistry and alchemy are to his philosophy of science. They take up the metaphysical and ontological consequences of his philosophy and discuss his influence in the 17th and 18th centuries. Highlighting the importance of his moral theory and theological commitments for his philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology, chapters show how they motivate Boyle's philosophical positions and practices. For students or researchers looking to better understand Boyle's contribution to philosophy The Bloomsbury Companion to Robert Boyle is a comprehensive and invaluable guide. By taking into account the last thirty years of scholarship and pointing towards the next thirty years it presents the best of the current research on Boyle's philosophy and significance today.

Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892674
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Boyle Reconsidered written by Michael Hunter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new view of Robert Boyle (1627-91), the leading British scientist in the generation before Newton. It comprises a series of essays by scholars from Europe and North America that scrutinize Boyle's writing on science, philosophy and theology, bringing out the subtlety and complexity of his ideas. Particular attention is given to Boyle's interest in alchemy and to other facets of his ideas that might initially seem surprising in a leading advocate of the mechanical philosophy. Many of the essays use material from among Boyle's extensive manuscripts, which have recently been catalogued for the first time. The introduction surveys the state of Boyle studies and deploys the findings of the essays to offer a reevaluation of Boyle. The book also includes a complete bibliography of writings on Boyle since 1940.