The metaphysical foundations of modern physical science
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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Garden City, N. Y.,
Doubleday,
1954
Garden City, N.Y. : 1954 Garden City, N.Y., 1954 Garden city, N.Y., 1954 Garden City, N.Y., 1954 Garden City, N.Y. : 1954 |
| Edition: | Rev. ed |
| Series: | Doubleday anchor books ;
A41 |
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Table of Contents:
- Historical problem suggested by nature of modern thought
- Metaphysical foundations of modern science key to problem
- Problem of new astronomy
- Metaphysical bearings of pre-Copernican progress in mathematics
- Ultimate implications of Copernicus' step-revival of Pythagoreans
- Kepler's early acceptance of new world-scheme
- first formulation of new metaphysics-causality, quantity, primary, secondary qualities
- Science of local motion
- Nature as mathematical order-Galileo's method
- Subjectivity of secondary qualities
- Motion, space, time
- Nature of causality-god and physical world-positivism
- Mathematics as key to knowledge
- Geometrical conception of physical universe
- Res extensa, res cogitans
- Problem of mind and body
- Hobbes' attack on Cartesian dualism
- Treatment of secondary qualities, causality
- More's notion of extension as category of spirit
- Spirit of nature
- Space as divine presence
- Barrow's philosophy of method, space, time
- Non-mathematical scientific current
- Boyle's importance as scientist and philosopher
- Acceptance and defense of mechanical world-view
- Value of qualitative and teleological explanations
- Insistence on reality of secondary qualities-conception of man
- Pessimistic view of human knowledge-positivism
- Bole's philosophy of ether
- God's relation to mechanical world
- Summary of pre-Newtonian development
- Newton's method
- Mathematical aspect
- Empirical aspect
- Attack on hypotheses
- Newton's union of mathematics and experiment
- Doctrine of positivism
- Newton's general conception of world, and man's relation to it
- Space, time, mass
- Mass
- Space, time
- Criticism of Newton's philosophy of space, time
- Newton's conception of ether
- Function of ether
- Newton's early speculations
- Development of a more settled theory
- God-creator, preserver of order of world
- Newton as theologian
- God's present duties in cosmic economy
- His