Description: Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant by Wolfgang Lefèvre 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. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset. As is well known, the interrelationship between philosophy and science underwent a profound change in the early modern period, in the course of which the sciences freed themselves from the conceptual framework of traditional metaphysics. The contributions of the volume focus on the eighteenth century, the critical and quite contradictory final phase of this process. The volume distinguishes itself by tracing this transition process not only in the obvious case of the new mechanics - Newtonianism and analytic mechanics - but also by addressing new speculative philosophies of nature - early modern atomism or imponderable physics - and new metaphysical controversies such as the body-mind problem (Can matter think?) as well as developments in special scientific fields such as cosmology/astronomy and natural history.The volume is written by historians of philosophy and the sciences of the early modern period and is intended primarily for specialists and students in these fields of knowledge. However, it is certainly also interesting and useful for cultural historians working on this period. Author Biography Wolfgang Lefèvre taught philosophy in connection with history of science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1994 Senior Scholar and now Emeritus scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. His research is focused on the interrelations of technological and scientific knowledge in the early modern period. Recent publication: "Minerva meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450-1750 (2021). Table of Contents Introduction.- 1. Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics (Alan Gabbey).- 2. Leibniz Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics (Hartmut Hecht).- 3. The Limits of Intelligibility: The Status of Physical Sciences in dAlemberts Philosophy (François De Gandt).- 4. "In Nature as in Geometry": Du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects (Aaron Wells).- 5. Order of Nature and Order of Science (Helmut Pulte).- 6. Samuel Clarkes Annotations in Jacques Rohaults Traité de Physique, and How They Contributed to Popularising Newtons Physics (Volkmar SchÜller).- 7. "Feigning Hypotheses": non-Newtonian Approaches to Gravitation - Euler and Le Sage (Maria de Paz).- 8. Kant on Extension and Force: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton (Eric Watkins).- 9. Enlightenment Scotlands Philosophico-Chemical Physics (David Wilson ).- 10. Materialistic Theories ofMind and Brain (Ann Thomson ).- 11. Kants Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think (Falk Wunderlich ).- 12. Cosmological Constellations: Varieties of Cosmology Available to Kant in 1755 (Stephen Howard).- 13. Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification and its Philosophical Contexts (Wolfgang Lefèvre ).- 14. Beyond Newton, Leibniz, and Kant: Constrained Motion and New Conceptual Foundations, 1740-1800 (Marius Stan).- Appendix 1.Newtons scholia from David Gregorys Estate on the Propositions IV trough IX Book III of his Principia.- Appendix 2. The Concepts of Immanuel Kants Natural Philosophy (1747-1780): A Database Rendering their Explicit and Implicit Networks. Details ISBN3031343395 Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Series Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Year 2023 Edition 2nd ISBN-13 9783031343391 Format Hardcover Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Pages 390 Author Wolfgang Lefèvre Replaces 9789048157747 Alternative 9783031343421 Edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre Series Number 341 Audience Professional & Vocational DEWEY 501 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 390 p. 1 illus. Publication Date 2023-08-17 Edition Description Second Edition 2023 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159524773;
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