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Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant

Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang Lefèvre

    1. Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 220)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Seismic Vibrations in Metaphysics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics

      • Alan Gabbey
      Pages 3-23

  5. Can Matter Think?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Materialistic Theories of Mind and Brain

      • Ann Thomson
      Pages 149-173

    3. Kant’s Second Paralogism in Context

      • Falk Wunderlich
      Pages 175-188

  6. Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Natural or Artificial Systems?

      • Wolfgang Lefèvre
      Pages 191-209

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 211-288
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About this book

It is a truism that philosophy and the sciences were closely linked in the age of Leibniz, Newton, and Kant; but a more precise determination of the structure and dynamics of this linkage is required. The subject matter of this volume is the interactions among the developments in philosophy and the transformations that the different branches of sciences, Baconian as well as classical, underwent during this period. Among the topics addressed are the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics and its consequences for founding physics on metaphysics, the diverging avenues of 18th-century Newtonianism, the body-mind problem as dealt with by philosophers and physicians, and philosophical principles of classification in the life sciences. As an appendix, a critical edition and first translation into English of Newton's scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV through IX Book III of his Principia is added.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Lefèvre

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century

  • Editors: Wolfgang Lefèvre

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9729-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7198-4Published: 30 September 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9729-6Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 288

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy, History, general, Philosophy of Science

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