Bechler Newton’s Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-94-011-3276-3
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 127, 588 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bechler, Z.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: The Tradition.- One: Aristotelian and Platonic Conceptions of Explanation.- Two: Aristotle’s Philosophy of Nature and Theory of Potentiality.- Three: Plato’s Concept of the Actual and His Philosophy of Nature.- II: The Logical Revolution.- Four: The Copernican Harmony.- Five: Bacon’s Informative Logic.- Six: Informativity and Paradox: Galileo’s Conception of the Nature of Physical Reality.- Seven: Descartes’ Informative Logic.- III: Newton’s Physics and its Critics.- Eight: Actual Infinity and Newton’s Calculus.- Nine: Newton’s Logic of Space and Time.- Ten: Modern Newtonian Historiography and the Puzzle of Newton’s Absolute Space.- Eleven: Absolute Motion and the Nature of Inertial Forces.- Twelve: Locke and the Meaning of “Empiricism”.- Thirteen: Newton’s Invention of the Problem of Induction.- Fourteen: Circularity and Newton’s Philosophy of Nature.- Fifteen: Leibniz’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature.- Sixteen: Berkeley’s Aristotelian Critique of Newton’s Physics.- Epilogue.- Appendix: Some Basic Ideas in Newton’s Physics.- Notes.