Overview
This volume of original papers by a leading team of international scholars explores Isaac Newton's relation to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists. It includes studies of Newton's experimental methods in optics and their roots in Bacon and Boyle; Locke's and Hume's responses to Newton on the nature of matter, time, the structure of the sciences, and the limits of human inquiry. In addition it explores the use of Newtonian ideas in 18th-century pedagogy and the life sciences. Finally, it breaks new ground in analyzing the method of evidential reasoning heralded by the Principia, its nature, strength, and development in the subsequent three centuries of gravitational research. The volume will be of interest to historians of science and philosophy and philosophers interested in the nature of empiricism.
Full Product Details
Author: Zvi Biener (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA) ,
Eric Schliesser (BOF Research Professor, Philosophy & Moral Sciences, BOF Research Professor, Philosophy & Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 16.50cm
Weight: 0.612kg
ISBN: 9780199337095
ISBN 10: 0199337098
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 26 June 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""The strength of the collection seems to be that it helps illustrate the richness of both Newtonianism and empiricism... anyone who reads through the entire volume will come away with a host of excellent resources (texts, distinctions, taxonomies, arguments) for thinking about these issues."" Journal of the History of Philosophy ""While this is an academic book, you don't need to be a scholar of Newton's works to understand it. The book is a mathematics-free zone, which should encourage a wide range of people to read it."" --Sun News Miami ""It is a thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding read... This book is a rich resource for those interested in Newton's engagement with and impact on the philosophical problems of his time, and on subsequent philosophy of science to the present day. Whether or not you have any prior knowledge of Newton's work, this collection is sure to contain something that will be of interest."" -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online"
It is a thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding readThis book is a rich resource for those interested in Newton's engagement with and impact on the philosophical problems of his time, and on subsequent philosophy of science to the present day. Whether or not you have any prior knowledge of Newton's work, this collection is sure to contain something that will be of interest. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
Author Information
Zvi Biener is an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati. His research concerns the unity of science in early modernity, particularly early-modern views on reduction, the interdependence of branches of knowledge, and the metaphysical underpinnings of the mathematical sciences. Eric Schliesser is BOF Research Professor at Ghent University. He has published widely in early modern philosophy and the sciences, especially Spinoza, Newton, Hume, Adam Smith, and Sophie de Grouchy as well as philosophy of economics.
