Interpreting Newton Critical Essays

Name: Interpreting Newton Critical Essays
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ISBN: 9780521766180

ISBN-10: 0521766184

ISBN-13: 9780521766180

Edition: 2011

Authors: Andrew Janiak, Eric Schliesser

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List price: $175.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/12/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 450
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

Eric Schliesser is BOF Research Professor of Philosophy at Ghent University. He has published widely on Newton, Huygens and their eighteenth-century reception (especially Hume and Adam Smith) as well as in the philosophy of economics. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Isaac Newton (Oxford University Press).



Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction




Newton and his contemporaries



Newton's law-constitutive approach to bodies: a response to Descartes




Leibniz, Newton and force




Locke's qualified embrace of Newton's Principia




What geometry postulates: Newton and Barrow on the relationship of mathematics to nature




Philosophical themes in Newton



Cotes's queries: Newton's empiricism and conceptions of matter




Newton's scientific method and the universal law of gravitation




Newton, Huygens, and Euler: empirical support for laws of motion




What did Newton mean by 'Absolute Motion?




From velocities to fluxions




The reception of Newton



Newton, Locke, and Hume




Maupertuis on attraction as an inherent properly of matter




The Newtonian refutation of Spinoza: Newton's Challenge and the Socratic Problem




Dispositional explanations: Boyle's problem, Newton's solution, Hume's response




Newton and Kant on absolute space: from theology to transcendental philosophy




How Newton's Principia changed physics



References


Index