Z. Bechler

Newton's Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 588
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401132763
• Artikelnr.: 44047450

Inhaltsangabe

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.