"The main Business of natural Philosophy"
Isaac Newton's Natural-Philosophical Methodology
(Sprache: Englisch)
This monograph provides a historically detailed and philosophical study of Newton's scientific methodology. The text illustrates how Newton carefully distinguished between the physico-mathematical treatment and the physical treatment of force, and that the former should always precede the latter.
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This monograph provides a historically detailed and philosophical study of Newton's scientific methodology. The text illustrates how Newton carefully distinguished between the physico-mathematical treatment and the physical treatment of force, and that the former should always precede the latter.
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In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton's methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses procedures to minimize inductive risk during the process of theory formation and which, thereby, surpasses a standard hypothetico-deductive methodological setting. Accordingly, it will be highlighted that the so-called 'Newtonian Revolution' was not restricted to the empirical and theoretical dimensions of science, but applied equally to the methodological dimension of science. Furthermore, it will be documented that Newton's methodology was far from static and that it developed alongside with his scientific work. Attention will be paid not only to the successes of Newton's innovative methodology, but equally to its tensions and limitations. Based on a thorough study of Newton's extant manuscripts, this monograph will address and contextualize, inter alia, Newton's causal realism, his views on action at a distance and space and time, the status of efficient causation in the /Principia/, the different phases of his methodology, his treatment of force and the constituents of the physico-mathematical models in the context of Book I of the /Principia/, the analytic part of the argument for universal gravitation, the meaning and significance of his regulae philosophandi, the methodological differences between his mechanical and optical work, and, finally, the interplay between Newton's theology and his natural philosophy.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „"The main Business of natural Philosophy" “
- List of Figures- Introduction
Part I: Newton's Causal Methodology
1 Newton and the Causes: Something Borrowed and Something New
Part II: Newton's Methodology, or: How to Deduce Causes by Their Effects
2 Uncovering the Methodology of the Principia (I): The Phase of Model Construction
3 Uncovering the Methodology of the Principia (II): The Phase of Model Application and Theory Formation
4 Facing the Limits of Deductions from Phenomena: Newton's Quest for a Mathematical-Demonstrative Optics
5 Uncovering the Methodology of the Principia (III): A Brief Chronology of Newton's Methodological Itinerary
Part III: Newton's Theology
6 "To Treat of God from Phenomena"
7 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Steffen Ducheyne
- 2012, 2012, XXVI, 354 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 9400721250
- ISBN-13: 9789400721258
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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From the reviews:"This new study by Steffen Ducheyne ... focuses more on Newton's natural philosophy. This marks a further advance of our understanding of this important subject, and Ducheyne is to be congratulated for discovering something new, and important, to say about a figure whose work has generated a veritable scholarly industry. ... this is a major and important contribution to this field." (John Henry, Science & Education, May, 2012)
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From the reviews:"This new study by Steffen Ducheyne ... focuses more on Newton's natural philosophy. This marks a further advance of our understanding of this important subject, and Ducheyne is to be congratulated for discovering something new, and important, to say about a figure whose work has generated a veritable scholarly industry. ... this is a major and important contribution to this field." (John Henry, Science & Education, May, 2012)
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