Book ID: CBB854623933

Newton and Empiricism (2014)

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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.

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Review Robert Callergård (2015) Review of "Newton and Empiricism". HOPOS (pp. 194-197). unapi

Review Scott Mandelbrote (2016) Review of "Newton and Empiricism". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 393-394). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Philippe Hamou (2014) Vision, Color, and Method in Newton’s Opticks. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 66-94). unapi

Chapter Tamas Demeter (2014) Enlarging the Bounds of Moral Philosophy: Newton's Method and Hume's Science of Man. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 171-204). unapi

Chapter Dana Jalobeanu (2014) Constructing Natural Historical Facts: Baconian Methodology in Newton's First Paper on Light and Colors. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 39-65). unapi

Chapter Geoff Gorham; Ed Slowik (2014) Locke and Newton on Space and Time and their Sensible Measures. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 119-137). unapi

Chapter Yoram Hazony (2014) Newtonian Explanatory Reduction and Hume’s System of the Sciences. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 138-170). unapi

Chapter Stephen Gaukroger (2014) Empiricism as a Development of Experimental Natural Philosophy. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 15-38). unapi

Chapter Zvi Biener; Eric Schliesser (2014) Introduction. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 1-12). unapi

Chapter Lisa Downing (2014) Locke's Metaphysics and Newtonian Metaphysics. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 97-118). unapi

Chapter Charles Wolfe (2014) On the Role of Newtonian Analogies in Eighteenth-Century Life Science: Vitalism and Provisionally Inexplicable Explicative Devices. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 233-261). unapi

Chapter George Smith (2014) Closing the Loop: Testing Newtonian Gravity, Then and Now. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 262-352). unapi

Chapter Tammy Nyden (2014) Living Force at Leiden: De Volder's Gravesande and the Reception of Newtonianism. In: Newton and Empiricism (pp. 207-222). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ed Slowik
Schliesser, Erick
Schliesser, Eric
Joy, Lynn S.
Downing, Lisa
Wojcik, Jan W.
Concepts
Physics
Natural philosophy
Methodology of science; scientific method
Philosophy of science
Philosophy
Empiricism
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
Medieval
Enlightenment
19th century
Places
England
Great Britain
British Isles
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