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Author:   Wolfgang Lefèvre
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   2001 ed.
Volume:   220
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.629kg
ISBN:  

9780792371984

ISBN 10:   0792371984
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9783031343391
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

One. Seismic Vibrations in Metaphysics.- 1 Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics.- Two. Metaphysics and the Analytical Method.- 2 Leibniz’ Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics.- 3 The Limits of Intelligibility: The Status of Physical Sciences in d’Alemberts Philosophy.- 4 Order of Nature and Orders of Science.- Three. Avenues of Newtonianism.- 5 Samuel Clarke’s Annotations in Jacques Rohault’s Traité de Physique, and How They Contributed to Popularising Newton’s Physics.- 6 Kant on Extension and Force: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton.- 7 Enlightenment Scotland’s Philosophico-Chemical Physics.- Four. Can Matter Think?.- 8 Materialistic Theories of Mind and Brain.- 9 Kant’s Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think.- Five. Metaphysics and Natural History.- 10 Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification of Animals and Plants and its Philosophical Contexts.- Appendices.- 2 The Concepts of Immanuel Kant’s Natural Philosophy (1747–1780): A Database Rendering their Explicit and Implicit Networks.

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