Newton and Empiricism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Biener, Zvi; Schliesser, Eric

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of original papers by a leading team of international scholars explores Isaac Newton's relation to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists. It includes studies of Newton's experimental methods in optics and their roots in Bacon and Boyle; Locke's and Hume's responses to Newton on the nature of matter, time, the structure of the sciences, and the limits of human inquiry. In addition it explores the use of Newtonian ideas in 18th-century pedagogy and the life sciences. Finally, it breaks new ground in analyzing the method of evidential reasoning heralded by the Principia, its nature, strength, and development in the subsequent three centuries of gravitational research. The volume will be of interest to historians of science and philosophy and philosophers interested in the nature of empiricism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199337101
• Artikelnr.: 40849758

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I. The Roots of Newton's Experimental Method
* 1. Stephen Gaukroger (Aberdeen and Sydney): "Empiricism as a
Development of Experimental Natural Philosophy"
* 2. Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest): "Constructing Natural Historical
Facts: Baconian Methodology in Newton's First Paper on Light and
Colors"
* 3. Philippe Hamou (Université de Lille III): "Colorific Properties,
Visual Sensation and Method in Newton's Opticks"
* II. Newton and "Empiricist" Philosophers
* 4.Lisa Downing (Ohio State): "Locke's Metaphysics and Newtonian
Metaphysics"
* 5. Geoff Gorham and Ed Slowik. "Locke and Newton on Space and Time
and their Sensible Measures"
* 6. Yoram Hazony (Shalem Institute): "Hume's Attack on Newton: A
Reappraisal"
* 7. Tamas Demeter (Max Planck Institute): "Enlarging the Bounds of
Moral Philosophy: Newton's Method and Hume's Science of Man"
* III. Newtonian Method in 18th and 18th-Century Science
* 8. Tammy Nyden (Grinnel College): "Living Force at Leiden: De Volder,
's Gravesande and the Reception of Newtonianism"
* 9. Charles Wolfe (Sydney): "On the role of Newtonian analogies in
eighteenth-century life science: Vitalism and provisionally
inexplicable explicative devices"
* 10. George Smith (Tufts): "Closing the Loop: Testing Newtonian
Gravity, Then and Now"