Article ID: CBB381679846

Causation and Gravitation in George Cheyne's Newtonian Natural Philosophy (2021)

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This paper analyzes the metaphysical system developed in Cheyne’s Philosophical Principles of Religion. Cheyne was an early proponent of Newtonianism and tackled several philosophical questions raised by Newton’s work. The most pressing of these concerned the causal origin of gravitational attraction. Cheyne rejected the occasionalist explanations offered by several of his contemporaries in favor of a model on which God delegated special causal powers to bodies. Additionally, he developed an innovative approach to divine conservation. This allowed him to argue that Newton’s findings provided evidence for God’s existence and providence without the need for continuous divine intervention in the universe.

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Authors & Contributors
Janiak, Andrew
Kochiras, Hylarie
Henry, John
Petković, Tomislav
Arthur, Richard
Schliesser, Eric
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Science and religion
Metaphysics
Philosophy of science
Physics
Gravitation
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Enlightenment
Places
England
Italy
Germany
France
Europe
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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