Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant : philosophy and science in the eighteenth century / edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre.

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[2001], ©2001
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Dordrecht ; Boston ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001], ©2001.

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xvi, 281 pages ; 25 cm.

Contents

Disciplinary transformations in the age of Newton : the case of metaphysics / Alan Gabbey -- Leibniz' concept of possible worlds and the analysis of motion in eighteenth-century physics / Harmut Hecht -- Limits of intelligibility : the status of physical sciences in d'Alemberts philosophy / Fran̨cois De Gandt -- Order of nature and orders of science / Helmut Pulte -- Samuel Clarke's annotations in Jacques Rohault's Traité de physique, and how they contributed to popularising Newton's physics / Volkmar Schüller -- Kant on extension and force : critical appropriations of Leibniz and Newton / Eric Watkins -- Enlightenment Scotland's philosophico-chemical physics / David B. Wilson -- Materialistic theories of mind and brain / Ann Thomson -- Kant's second paralogism in context : the Critique of Pure Reason on whether matter can think / Falk Wunderlich -- Natural or artificial systems? : the eighteenth-century controversy on classification of animals and plants and its philosophical contexts / Wolfgang Lefevre -- Newton's scholia from David Gregory's estate on the Propositions IV through IX Book III of his Principia / edited, translated and annotated by Volkmar Schüller -- Concepts of Immanuel Kant's natural philosopy (1747-1780) : a database rendering their explicit and implicit networks / Wolfgang Lefevre and Falk Wunderlich.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 0792371984