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9780521862868

Newton As Philosopher

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    9780521862868

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    0521862868

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-07-10
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Newton's philosophical views are unique and uniquely difficult to categorise. In the course of a long career from the early 1670s until his death in 1727, he articulated profound responses to Cartesian natural philosophy and to the prevailing mechanical philosophy of his day. Newton as Philosopher presents Newton as an original and sophisticated contributor to natural philosophy, one who engaged with the principal ideas of his most important predecessor, Renè Descartes, and of his most influential critic, G. W. Leibniz. Unlike Descartes and Leibniz, Newton was systematic and philosophical without presenting a philosophical system, but over the course of his life, he developed a novel picture of nature, our place within it, and its relation to the creator. This rich treatment of his philosophical ideas, the first in English for thirty years, will be of wide interest to historians of philosophy, science, and ideas.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. vii
Note on texts and translationsp. xi
Newton as philosopher, the very ideap. 1
Physics and metaphysics: three interpretationsp. 11
Hypotheses non fingo and metaphysical agnosticismp. 15
Newton's radical empiricismp. 25
A physical metaphysics: inverting Descartes?p. 32
Do forces exist? contesting the mechanical philosophy, Ip. 50
Newton's dilemma: action at a distancep. 53
The mathematical treatment of forcep. 58
Forces in Leibniz and Clarkep. 65
Newton's dilemma resolvedp. 74
The ontology of forcep. 81
Matter and mechanism: contesting the mechanical philosophy, IIp. 87
Is gravity an occult quality?p. 88
Descartes and Newton on matter's essencep. 102
The epistemology of material objectsp. 113
A new concept: non-mechanical matterp. 118
Space in physics and metaphysics: contra Descartesp. 130
Space and the laws of motionp. 132
The ontology of spacep. 139
Newton's absolutism revisitedp. 150
Is Newton's view of space metaphysical?p. 155
God and natural philosophyp. 163
Bibliographyp. 179
Indexp. 190
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