Elements of Natural Philosophy. I
Author: Thomson (William)
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 312
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Author: Thomson (William)
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Thomson Baron Kelvin
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Thomson Baron Kelvin
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E.C. Banks
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 940170175X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy exploring Mach's views on science as well as philosophy, this book attempts to wrest him free from his customary association with logical positivism and to reinterpret him on his own terms as a natural philosopher and naturalist about human knowledge. Physicists, psychologists, philosophers of science, historians of twentieth-century thought and culture, and educators will find this volume a valuable help in interpreting Mach's ideas.
Author: John Locke
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Published: 1750
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steffen Ducheyne
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9400721269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton’s methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses procedures to minimize inductive risk during the process of theory formation and which, thereby, surpasses a standard hypothetico-deductive methodological setting. Accordingly, it will be highlighted that the so-called ‘Newtonian Revolution’ was not restricted to the empirical and theoretical dimensions of science, but applied equally to the methodological dimension of science. Furthermore, it will be documented that Newton’s methodology was far from static and that it developed alongside with his scientific work. Attention will be paid not only to the successes of Newton’s innovative methodology, but equally to its tensions and limitations. Based on a thorough study of Newton’s extant manuscripts, this monograph will address and contextualize, inter alia, Newton’s causal realism, his views on action at a distance and space and time, the status of efficient causation in the /Principia/, the different phases of his methodology, his treatment of force and the constituents of the physico-mathematical models in the context of Book I of the /Principia/, the analytic part of the argument for universal gravitation, the meaning and significance of his regulae philosophandi, the methodological differences between his mechanical and optical work, and, finally, the interplay between Newton’s theology and his natural philosophy.
Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2010-04-05
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0813217385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, distinguished scholar Edward Grant identifies the vital elements that contributed to the creation of a widespread interest in natural philosophy, which has been characterized as the "Great Mother of the Sciences."
Author: Tuomas E. Tahko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-11
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 1108604560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnity of science was once a very popular idea among both philosophers and scientists. But it has fallen out of fashion, largely because of its association with reductionism and the challenge from multiple realisation. Pluralism and the disunity of science are the new norm, and higher-level natural kinds and special science laws are considered to have an important role in scientific practice. What kind of reductionism does multiple realisability challenge? What does it take to reduce one phenomenon to another? How do we determine which kinds are natural? What is the ontological basis of unity? In this Element, Tuomas Tahko examines these questions from a contemporary perspective, after a historical overview. The upshot is that there is still value in the idea of a unity of science. We can combine a modest sense of unity with pluralism and give an ontological analysis of unity in terms of natural kind monism. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Joseph Bobik
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 1998-03-15
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0268076332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph Bobik offers a translation of Aquinas’s De Principiis Naturae (circa 1252) and De Mixtione Elementorum (1273) accompanied by a continuous commentary, followed by two essays: “Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances” and “The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today.” The Principles of Nature introduces the reader to the basic Aristotelian principles such as matter and form, the four causes so fundamental to Aquinas’s philosophy. On Mixture of the Elements examines the question of how the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water) remain within the physical things composed from them.
Author: Sir John Leslie
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Published: 1823
Total Pages: 494
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