Janiak, Andrew (Editor)
Schliesser, Erick (Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Physical Details: x + 439 pp.
Language: English
This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars presents new research on Isaac Newton and his main philosophical interlocutors and critics. The essays analyze Newton's relation to his contemporaries, especially Barrow, Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke, and discuss the ways in which a broad range of figures, including Hume, MacLaurin, Maupertuis, and Kant, reacted to his thought. The wide range of topics discussed includes the laws of nature, the notion of force, the relation of mathematics to nature, Newton's argument for universal gravitation, his attitude toward philosophical empiricism, his use of "fluxions," his approach toward measurement problems, and his concept of absolute motion, together with new interpretations of Newton's matter theory. The volume concludes with an extended essay that analyzes the changes in physics wrought by Newton's Principia. A substantial introduction and bibliography provide essential reference guides"
...MoreEssay Review Demeter, Tamás (2014) Newton for Philosophers. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 249-253).
Chapter Janiak, Andrew; Schliesser, Eric (2012) Introduction. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 1-10).
Chapter Brading, Katherine (2012) Newton's Law-Constitutive Approach to Bodies: A Response to Descartes. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 13-32).
Chapter Garber, Daniel (2012) Leibniz, Newton and Force. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 33-47).
Chapter Domski, Mary (2012) Locke's Qualified Embrace of Newton's Principia. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 48-68).
Chapter Dunlop, Katherine (2012) What Geometry Postulates: Newton and Barrow on the Relationship of Mathematics to Nature. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 69-102).
Chapter Biener, Zvi; Smeenk, Chris (2012) Cotes' Queries: Newton's Empiricism and Conceptions of Matter. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 105-137).
Chapter Belkind, Ori (2012) Newton's Scientific Method and the Universal Law of Gravitation. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 138-168).
Chapter Harper, William (2012) Newton, Huygens and Euler: Empirical Support for Laws of Motion. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 169-195).
Chapter Huggett, Nick (2012) What Did Newton Mean by “Absolute Motion”?. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 196-218).
Chapter Panza, Marco (2012) From Velocities to Fluxions. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 219-254).
Chapter Pierris, Graciela de (2012) Newton, Locke, and Hume. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 257-279).
Chapter Downing, Lisa (2012) Maupertuis on Attraction as an Inherent Property of Matter. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 280-298).
Chapter Schliesser, Eric (2012) The Newtonian Refutation of Spinoza: Newton's Challenge and the Socratic Problem. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 299-319).
Chapter Joy, Lynn S. (2012) Dispositional Explanations: Boyle's Problem, Newton's Solution, Hume's Response. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 320-341).
Chapter Friedman, Michael (2012) Newton and Kant on Absolute Space: From Theology to Transcendental Philosophy. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 342-359).
Chapter Smith, George E. (2012) How Newton's Principia Changed Physics. In: Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (pp. 360-395).
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