Newton's Metaphysics

Newton's Metaphysics

Essays

Schliesser, Eric

Oxford University Press Inc

10/2021

328

Dura

Inglês

9780197567692

15 a 20 dias

624

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on the text
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Without God: Gravity as a Relational Quality of Matter in Newton's Treatise
2. Newton's substance monism, distant action, and the nature of Newton's empiricism
2a. Postscript
3. On reading Newton as an Epicurean
4. Newton and Spinoza: On motion and matter (and God, of course) (with Mary Domski)
5. Newtonian emanation, Spinozism, measurement and the Baconian origins of the laws of nature
6. The certainty, modality, and grounding of Newton's laws (with Zvi Biener)
7. Newton's philosophy of time
7a. Postscript
8. Newton's Modal Metaphysics and Polemics with Spinozism in the General Scholium
9. The Posidonian Argument: The Presupposition of Design in Natural Philosophy
Bibliography
Index
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