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"This book provides a reading of Newton's argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton associates with his program of experimental philosophy. It highlights the richness and complexity of the Principia and also draws important lessons about how to situate Newton in his natural philosophical context. The book has two primary objectives. First, it defends a novel interpretation of the third of Newton's four Rules for the Study of Natural Philosophy-what the author terms the Two-Set Reading of Rule 3. Second, it argues that this novel interpretation of Rule 3 sheds additional light on the differences between Newton's experimental philosophy and Descartes's "hypothetical philosophy," and that it also illuminates how the practice of experimental philosophy allowed Newton to make a universal force of gravity the centerpiece of his explanation of the system of the world. Newton's Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on Newton's natural philosophy, early modern philosophy, and the history of science"-- Provided by publisher.
Philosophy of nature. --- Philosophy of nature --- History. --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Philosophy
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Philosophy of nature. --- Place (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz' Denken speist sich aus einer breiten Kenntnis früherer Philosophen - aber hat es die Philosophiegeschichte selbst zum Thema? Hannes Amberger bejaht diese Frage: Leibniz' Verständnis der Philosophiegeschichte orientiert sich an einem Fortschrittsparadigma, dem zufolge entscheidende Wahrheiten der Metaphysik von jeher bekannt sind, aber durch eine Verbesserung der philosophischen Methode in einem niemals abgeschlossenen Prozess kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt werden. Dieses für Leibniz lebenslänglich entscheidende Motiv dient Ambergers Studie zugleich als hermeneutischer Schlüssel, der einen neuen Blick auf bekannte Themen der Leibniz-Forschung erlaubt: die Rezeption etwa Thomas Hobbes', des Platonismus oder der Scholastik, den Dualismus von Materie und Form, die Prästabilierte Harmonie, den Erfahrungshintergrund im barocken Fürstenstaat und die zeitliche Gliederung von Leibniz' Werkbiografie. Entscheidende Prämisse für Leibniz' progressives Geschichtsbild, so die These, ist das neuplatonische Motiv der Teilhabe aller Dinge am Wesen Gottes.
Philosophy --- Theology of History --- Shape Cause --- Early Modern Philosophy of History --- Plato's Reception --- Natural Theology --- Metaphilosophy
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This is the first English translation of Causalite ́ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation. Max Kistler reconstructs a unified concept of causation that is general enough to adequately deal with both elementary physical processes, and the macroscopic level of phenomena we encounter in everyday life.This book will be of great interest to philosophers of science and metaphysics, and also to students and scholars of philosophy of mind where concepts of causation and law play a prominent role.
Causation. --- Philosophy of nature. --- Logic --- Natural law --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- causal --- responsibility --- statements --- antecedent --- property --- relation --- eventive --- nomological --- statement --- theory
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The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas between 1400 and 1700. In this book, the 1) origin or creation, 2) transmission or dissemination, and 3) use or consumption are key subjects for understanding the place of practical knowledge in early modern European society. After a historiographical and theoretical approach, this book applies Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome metaphor to art technological literature. The first part ends with a study about medical practitioners and mediators who disseminate practical knowledge through the printing press. The second part of the book is entirely dedicated to the bookletA Very Proper Treatise (1573), using a microhistory approach to study it.
Creation. --- Biblical cosmogony --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution --- Art technology --- Book history --- Contextualizing --- Early --- Europe --- Food history --- Knowledge --- Leemans --- Medical practitioners --- Modern --- Practical --- Recipe books --- Rhizomatic transmission --- 1450-1600 --- Renaissance Period
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What is soul? Can it be forfeited? Can it be traded away? If it can, what would ensue? What consequences would follow from loss of soul - for the individual, for society, for the earth? In the early nineteenth century, Goethe's hero, Faust, became a defining archetype of modernity, a harbinger of the existential possibilities and moral complexities of the modern condition. But today the dire consequences of the Faustian pact with the devil are becoming alarmingly visible. In light of this, how would Goethe's arguably flawed drama play out in a 21st-century century setting? Would a contemporary Faust sign up to a demonic deal? Indeed what, in the wake of two hundred years of social and economic development, would be left for the devil to offer him? A contemporary Faust would already possess everything the original Faust in his ascetic cloister lacked - affluence and mobility; celebrity and worldly influence; access to information; religious choice; sexual freedom and the availability of women - though women, it must be noted, currently also partake of that same freedom. The only thing a present-day Faust would lack would be his soul. Would he miss it? Does soul even exist? If it does, it would of course be the one thing the devil could not bestow. So from what or whom could Faust retrieve it? What, in a word, would a contemporary Faust most deeply desire? In pursuit of these questions, Ardea engages a familiar but possibly faulty archetype, that of Faust, with an unfamiliar one, that of the white heron, an archetype borrowed from a short story of the same name by 19th-century American author, Sarah Orne Jewett. In Jewett's tale, a soul-pact of an entirely different kind from that entered into by Faust is proposed. It is a pact with the wild, a pledge of fealty, of non-forfeiture, that promises to redraw the violent psycho-sexual and psycho-spiritual patterns that have underpinned modernity. How would a present-day heir to the Faustian tradition, ingrained with the habit of entitlement but also burdened with the consequences of the old pact, respond to the new proposition?
Philosophy of nature. --- Philosophy. --- Ethics. --- Soul. --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Pneuma --- Future life --- Philosophical anthropology --- Theological anthropology --- Animism --- Spirit --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities
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In the course of the eighteenth century, Newton's ideas (in different guises and interpretations) became a veritable hype in Dutch society. In "Newton & the Netherlands" Newton's sudden success is analyzed in great depth and put into a new perspective.
Newton, Isaac, -- 1642-1727. --- Natural history --- Physics --- Natural theology --- Philosophy, Dutch --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Physics - General --- Philosophy --- Newton, Isaac, --- Natural religion --- Theology, Natural --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Dutch philosophy --- Newton, Izaak, --- Niu-tun, --- Nʹi︠u︡ton, Isaak, --- Niutun, Yisake, --- Niyu̇ton, Isak, --- Nyuṭon, Ayzaḳ, --- Nyuṭon, Ayziḳ, --- ניוטאן, אייזאק, --- ניוטון, אייזק --- ניוטון, אייזיק --- 牛頓, --- 牛頓, 伊萨克, --- Natural theology. --- Philosophy, Dutch. --- Philosophy. --- Apologetics --- God --- Religion --- Religion and science --- Theology --- Philosophy of nature --- History of the Netherlands --- Newton, Isaac --- wetenschap algemeen --- popular science --- Amsterdam --- Christiaan Huygens --- Herman Boerhaave --- Isaac Newton --- Leiden --- Natural philosophy --- Netherlands --- Newtonianism --- Pieter van Musschenbroek
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Not all charms fly at the touch of cold philosophy. Vital Reenchantments examines so-called cold philosophy, or science, that does precisely the opposite — rather than mercilessly emptying out and unweaving, it operates as a philosophy that animates. More specifically, Greyson closely examines how a specific group of “poet-in-scientists” of the late 1970s and 1980s directed attention to the “wondrous” unfolding of life, at a time when the counter-culture in particular had made the institution of science synonymous with technologies of alienation and destruction. In this vein, Vital Reenchantments takes up E.O. Wilson’s Biophilia (1984), James Lovelock’s Gaia (1979), and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (1980), in order to show how each work fleshes out scientific concepts with a unique attention to “affective wonder,” understood as the experience of and attunement to novel effects. What is so unique about these works is that they reenchant the scientific world without pandering to what Richard Dawkins will later term “cosmic sentimentality.” Carl Sagan may have said “We are made of starstuff,” but he would never insist, as Joni Mitchell did in 1969, that “we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” Instead, they insist on a third way that does not rely on the idea of an ecological Eden — a vigorously vital materialism in which the affective trumps the sentimental. Further, the historical emergence of these works, all published within 5 years of each other, was no accident: each book responded to an ever deepening sense of environmental crisis, certainly, but along with it they responded to, perhaps more than marginally related, narratives of the large-scale disenchantment brought on by modernity or science, and more often than not a mixture of the two. Greyson argues that the persistence of these works and their affectively-charged scientific concepts in contemporary popular culture and ecological thought is no accident. As such, these works deserve recognition as far more than “popular science” and can be seen as essential contributions to more contemporary vital materialist thought and ecological theory. No doubt this talk of enchantment and wonder, so tied to immediate experience, can seem trivial in the face of any number of environmental crises (global warming first among these) that do not just appear ominously on the horizon, but loom as never before. The first task of this book thus to pose the same question that Jane Bennett does at the end of her own work on enchantment: “How can someone write a book about enchantment in such a world?” Does this approach really provide, as Latour phrases it, “a way to bridge the distance between the scale of the phenomena we hear about and the tiny Umwelt inside which we witness, as if it were a fish inside its bowl, an ocean of catastrophes that are supposed to unfold”? Ultimately, Vital Reenchantments argues that affective ecologies, properly attended to, point toward an open present, one that broadens the horizons of the “fish bowl” and allows us to imagine engendering futures that are neither naively hopeful nor hopelessly apocalyptic.
Nature --- Nature conservation --- Philosophy of nature. --- Ecology --- Effect of human beings on. --- Philosophy. --- Ecophilosophy --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Human ecology --- Philosophy --- Philosophy of science --- ecology --- affect studies --- science studies --- philosophy of science --- environmental humanities --- ecophilosophy --- planetary geology
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"Based on the Duffy Lectures, a yearly lecture series at Boston College, this short book explores the theme of 'Deep Incarnation' as a way of making connections between incarnation and the whole of creation, including the costs built into our evolutionary world. The key question of 'Deep Incarnation, ' for Edwards, is: 'What relationship is there between the wider natural world, the world of galaxies and stars, mountains and seas, bacteria, plants and animals, and the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ?'"--
Incarnation --- Creation. --- Salvation --- History of doctrines. --- Christianity. --- Creation --- Soteriology --- Economy of God --- Biblical cosmogony --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution --- History of doctrines --- Christianity --- 241.65*7 --- 241.65*7 Theologische ethiek: natuur; ecologie --- Theologische ethiek: natuur; ecologie
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This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and arguments for God's existence from the universe's life-supporting order and contingent existence.
Cosmology. --- Big bang theory. --- Creation. --- Religion and science. --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Biblical cosmogony --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution --- Big bang cosmology --- Superdense theory --- Cosmology --- Expanding universe --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Religious aspects --- Philosophy of religion --- Philosophy --- Philosophy of Religion --- Philosophy of Science
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