Author : Gideon Manning
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 900421870X
Bringing together an international team of historians of science and philosophy to discuss the fate of matter and form, this volume shows how disputes about matter and form spurred innovation as well as conservatism in early modern science and philosophy.
Author : Donald Rutherford
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN :
An exploration of one of the most innovative periods in the history of Western philosophy.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 900422114X
Matter and form have been fundamental principles in natural science since Greek Antiquity and their apparent rejection during the seventeenth century typically has been described as a precursor to the emergence of modern science. This volume reconsiders the fate of these principles and the complex history of their reception. By analyzing work being done in physics, chemistry, theology, physiology, psychology, and metaphysics, and by considering questions about change, identity, and causation, the contributors show precisely how matter and form entered into early modern science and philosophy. The result is our best picture to date of the diverse reception of matter and form among the innovators of the early modern period.
Author : Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 019955613X
A team of leading scholars survey the development of philosophy in the period of extraordinary intellectual change from the mid-16th century to the early 18th century. They cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic, mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion.
Author : Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2001-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521805360
This book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher.
Author : Justin E. H. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107407282
This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing how it influenced the contemporary treatment of traditional philosophical questions, it also demonstrates how philosophical presuppositions about mechanism, substance, and cause informed the interpretations offered by those conducting empirical research on animal reproduction. Composed of cutting-edge essays written by an international team of leading scholars, the book offers a fresh perspective on some of the basic problems in early modern philosophy.
Author : Dmitri Levitin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108944736
In 1500, speculative philosophy lay at the heart of European intellectual life; by 1700, its role was drastically diminished. The Kingdom of Darkness tells the story of this momentous transformation. Dmitri Levitin explores the structural factors behind this change: the emancipation of natural philosophy from metaphysics; theologians' growing preference for philology over philosophy; and a new conception of the limits of the human mind derived from historical and oriental scholarship, not least concerning China and Japan. In turn, he shows that the ideas of two of Europe's most famous thinkers, Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton, were both the products of this transformation and catalysts for its success. Drawing on hundreds of sources in many languages, Levitin traces in unprecedented detail Bayle and Newton's conceptions of what Thomas Hobbes called The Kingdom of Darkness: a genealogical vision of how philosophy had corrupted the human mind. Both men sought to remedy this corruption, and their ideas helped lay the foundation for the system of knowledge that emerged in the eighteenth century.
Author : Nicola Polloni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031609271
Author : Liran Shia Gordon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1666902993
The metaphysical and theological writings of John Duns Scotus (1265/6-1308)—one of the most intriguing, albeit if now nigh-forgotten philosophers of the late Middle Ages—were seminal in the emergence of modernity. A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age: A Dialogue with Duns Scotus uses the prism of the concept of Creation as the leitmotif to assemble and interpret Scotus’s system of thought in a unified manner. In doing so, Liran Shia Gordon reframes Scotus’s metaphysics such that it confronts the challenges posed by information technology and its impact on our lives, thought, and actions. Surprisingly, although there has been great interest in the emergence and dissemination of information technology through the popular media, there has not yet been a genuine and vigorous philosophical consideration of the multiple ways information technology alters the basic categories by which we perceive and understand reality. Juxtaposing medieval philosophy and information technology offers an unconventional horizon to frame the foundational changes carried by the information revolution and reassess the relevancy of medieval philosophy.
Author : Tal Glezer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108420699
Original analysis of Kant's category of reality, with wide-ranging implications for understanding his critical philosophy and its development.
