Gebundenes Buch

Newton and Empiricism

Beschreibung

This is the first volume of original commissioned papers on the subject of Newton and empiricism. The chapters, contributed by a leading team of both established and younger international scholars, explore the nature and extent of Newton's relationship to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists.

Autor

Zvi Biener is an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati. His research concerns the unity of science in early modernity, particularly early-modern views on reduction, the interdependence of branches of knowledge, and the metaphysical underpinnings of the mathematical sciences. Eric Schliesser is BOF Research Professor at Ghent University. He has published widely in early modern philosophy and the sciences, especially Spinoza, Newton, Hume, Adam Smith, and Sophie de Grouchy as well as philosophy of economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780199337095
• ISBN-10: 0199337098
• Artikelnr.: 40443331