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Review of William L.Harper,Isaac Newton's Scientific Method
Newton scientific method gravity Principia
2016/6/15
The title and dust jacket portrait of Newton eliciting the celebrated phenomenon of colors may lead one to think this is a comprehensive work on Newton’s scientific method,including his experimental w...
Absolute, true and mathematical time in Newton’s Principia
Newton absolute time absolute motion true time mathematical time
2016/6/12
I discuss the three distinctions “absolute and relative”, “true and apparent”, and “mathematical and common”, for the specific case of time in Newton’s Principia. I argue that all three distinctions a...
Newton and Spinoza:On Motion and Matter(and God,of Course)
Newton, Spinoza Clarke More Maclaurin Matter Motion
2016/5/31
This study explores several arguments against BENEDICTUS DE Spinoza Spinoza’s philosophy that were developed by Henry More, Samuel Clarke, and Colin Maclaurin. In the arguments on which I focus, More,...
Newton’s Philosophy of Time
Newton Descartes Huygens mathematical time absolute time true time
2016/5/31
In this paper I explain what Newton means with the phrase “absolute, true, and mathematical time” (Principia, Scholium to the definitions) in order to discuss some of the philosophic issues that it gi...
Einstein and Tagore,Newton and Blake,Everett and Bohr:the dual nature of reality
realism idealism quantum
2016/5/31
There are two broad opposing classes of attitudes to reality (realist vs idealist, material vs mental) with corresponding attitudes to knowledge (objective vs subjective, scientific vs romantic). I ar...
Newton on Matter and Space in De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum
Isaac Newton Matter Space
2016/5/30
This paper explicates the concepts of matter and space that Newton develops in De gravitatione. As I interpret Newton’s account of created substances, bodies are constructed from qualities alone, as c...
Unity and change in Newton's physics
unity change perduring enduring law-constitutive Newton
2011/9/7
Here is a problem at the heart of the metaphysics of the natural world: How, if at all, can a unity undergo change? This problem incorporates two questions. First, in virtue of what is a thing a genui...
Two Senses of Activity and Gravity in Newton's Treatise
Action at a distance, Active principles, Causal hypothesis, Gravity, Isaac Newton, Vis inertiae
2011/9/8
Newton’s Treatise contains an intriguing description of the gravitational force, one that casts the force as arising from ‘the universal nature of matter’ and as having its ‘double cause’ in the ‘disp...
Newton’s Challenge to Philosophy: a programmatic essay
Newton science vs metaphysics the origins of scientific philosophy authority within philosophy
2011/9/8
The main point of this paper is to identify a set of interlocking views that became (and still are!) very influential within philosophy in the wake of Newton’s success. These views use the authority o...
This presentation will investigate the parts of space, and its relationship with metrical structure, in Newton’s natural philosophy. The historical background to Newton’s claims will form an important...
Newton, the Parts of Space, and Spacetime Structuralism
Newton, space and time, structuralism, Early Modern physics
2011/9/8
This essay will investigate the interrelationship between the parts of space and topological and metrical structure in Newton’s natural philosophy, as well as its influence in contemporary spacetime d...
The General Scholium: Some Notes on Newton's Published and Unpublished Endeavours
Newton, Principia, non-gravitational forces, explanation, theology, 17th century natural philosophy
2011/9/7
Newton’s immensely famous, but tersely written, General Scholium is primarily known for its reference to the argument of design and Newton’s famous dictum “hypotheses non fingo”. In the essay at hand,...
Without God: Gravity as a Relational Property of Matter in Newton
Newton, gravity, matter-theory, action at a distance, field ontology, empiricism
2011/9/8
In this paper I interpret Newton’s speculative treatment of gravity as a relational, accidental property of matter that arises through what Newton calls “the shared action” of two bodies of matter. In...
This paper investigates Newton’s ontology of space in order to determine its commitment, if any, to both Cambridge neo-Platonism, which posits an incorporeal basis for space, and substantivalism, whic...
Newton's Metaphysics of Space: A "Tertium Quid" Betwixt Substantivalism and relationism, or merely a "God of the (Rational Mechanical) Gaps"?
Space and Time, Newton, physics
2011/9/8
This paper investigates the question of, and the degree to which, Newton’s theory of space constitutes a third-way between the traditional substantivalist and relationist ontologies, i.e., that Newton...