Reading Natural Philosophy

Reading Natural Philosophy

Author: David B. Malament

Publisher: Open Court Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780812695069

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In this book, 13 leading philosophers of science focus on the work of Professor Howard Stein, best known for his study of the intimate connection between philosophy and natural science. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of Howard Stein's writings.


A History of Natural Philosophy

A History of Natural Philosophy

Author: Edward Grant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-01-29

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0521869315

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This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.


Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy

Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy

Author: Jed Z. Buchwald

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780262524254

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Shedding new light on the intellectual context of Newton's scientific thought, this book explores the development of his mathematical philosophy, rational mechanics, and celestial dynamics. An appendix includes the last paper written by Newton biographer Richard S. Westfall.


Plato's Natural Philosophy

Plato's Natural Philosophy

Author: Thomas Kjeller Johansen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-07-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1107320119

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Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. This book offers a unified reading of the dialogue. It tackles a wide range of interpretative and philosophical issues. Topics discussed include the function of the famous Atlantis story, the notion of cosmology as 'myth' and as 'likely', and the role of God in Platonic cosmology. Other areas commented upon are Plato's concepts of 'necessity' and 'teleology', the nature of the 'receptacle', the relationship between the soul and the body, the use of perception in cosmology, and the work's peculiar monologue form. The unifying theme is teleology: Plato's attempt to show the cosmos to be organised for the good. A central lesson which emerges is that the Timaeus is closer to Aristotle's physics than previously thought.


Reading Philosophy

Reading Philosophy

Author: Samuel Guttenplan

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780631234388

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This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings. Fully integrated introductory text with readings for beginning students of philosophy. Each chapter focusses on a core philosophical topic, and contains an introduction to the topic, 2 classic readings and interactive commentaries on the readings. An introductory book which doesn't merely tell the reader about the subject, but requires them to engage philosophically with the text. A pedagogical resource developed in the classroom by the authors at the University of London.


Seeking Nature's Logic

Seeking Nature's Logic

Author: David B. Wilson

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0271035250

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"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.


Grounds of Natural Philosophy

Grounds of Natural Philosophy

Author: Margaret Cavendish

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2020-02-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1460406877

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This edition aims to make Margaret Cavendish’s most mature philosophical work more accessible to students and scholars of the period. Grounds of Natural Philosophy is important not only because it is Cavendish’s final articulation of her metaphysics but also because it succinctly outlines her fundamental views on “the nature of nature”—or the base substance and mechanics of all natural matter—and vividly demonstrates her probabilistic approach to philosophical enquiry. Moreover, Grounds spends considerable time discussing the human body, including the functions of the mind, a topic of growing interest to both historians of philosophy and literary scholars. This Broadview Edition opens to modern readers a vibrant, unique, and provocative voice of the past that challenges our standard view of seventeenth-century English philosophy.


John Locke and Natural Philosophy

John Locke and Natural Philosophy

Author: Peter R. Anstey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0199589771

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Peter Anstey presents an innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy. He argues that Locke was an advocate of the experimental philosophy: the new approach to natural philosophy championed by the scientists of the Royal Society who were opposed to speculative philosophy.


Chance and Necessity

Chance and Necessity

Author: Jacques Monod

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780140256468

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Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.