Interpreting Newton (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Essays
Redaktion: Janiak, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars presents research on Isaac Newton and his main philosophical interlocutors and critics. The essays analyze Newton's relation to his contemporaries, especially Barrow, Descartes, Leibniz and Locke and discuss the ways in which a broad range of figures, including Hume, Maclaurin, Maupertuis and Kant, reacted to his thought. The wide range of topics discussed includes the laws of nature, the notion of force, the relation of mathematics to nature, Newton's argument for universal gravitation, his attitude toward philosophical empiricism, his use of 'fluxions', his approach toward measurement problems and his concept of absolute motion, together with new interpretations of Newton's matter theory. The volume concludes with an extended essay that analyzes the changes in physics wrought by Newton's Principia. A substantial introduction and bibliography provide essential reference guides.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139152693
• Artikelnr.: 52923700

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser; Part I. Newton and his
Contemporaries: 1. Newton's law-constitutive approach to bodies: a response
to Descartes Katherine Brading; 2. Leibniz, Newton and force Daniel Garber;
3. Locke's qualified embrace of Newton's Principia Mary Domski; 4. What
geometry postulates: Newton and Barrow on the relationship of mathematics
to nature Katherine Dunlop; Part II. Philosophical Themes in Newton: 5.
Cotes' queries: Newton's Empiricism and Conceptions of Matter Zvi Biener
and Chris Smeenk; 6. Newton's Scientific Method and the Universal Law of
Gravitation Ori Belkind; 7. Measurement and method: some remarks on Newton,
Huygens and Euler on natural philosophy William Harper; 8. What did Newton
mean by 'Absolute Motion'? Nick Huggett; 9. From velocities to fluxions
Marco Panza; Part III. The Reception of Newton: 10. Newton, Locke, and Hume
Graciela de Pierris; 11. Maupertuis on attraction as an inherent property
of matter Lisa Downing; 12. The Newtonian refutation of Spinoza: Newton's
Challenge and the Socratic Problem Eric Schliesser; 13. Dispositional
explanations: Boyle's problem, Newton's solution, Hume's response Lynn Joy;
14. Newton and Kant on Absolute Space: from theology to transcendental
philosophy Michael Friedman; 15. How Newton's Principia changed physics
George Smith; Bibliography.