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In this paper I try to capture Newton's notion and practice of unification (I will mainly focus on the Principia). I will use contemporary theories on unification in philosophy of science as analytic ...
Newton’s Experimentum Crucis vs. Goethe’s Series of Experiments: Implications for the Underdetermination Thesis
color experimentation Goethe light Newton
2008/4/22
In the seventeenth century, Newton published his famous experimentum crucis, in which he claimed that light is heterogeneous and is composed of (colored) rays with different refrangibilities. Experime...
THE GENERAL SCHOLIUM: SOME NOTES ON NEWTON’S PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED ENDEAVOURS
General Scholium Newton
2008/4/1
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,...
All Alone in the Universe: Individuals in Descartes and Newton
individuation Cartesian natural philosophy Newtonian mechanics
2008/3/31
In this paper we argue that the primary issue in Descartes’ Principles of Philosophy, Part II, articles 1-40, is the problem of individuating bodies. We demonstrate that Descartes departs from the tra...
Mathematical Models in Newton’s Principia: A New View of the “Newtonian Style”
Isaac Newton Principia (hypothetical-deductive) methodology
2008/3/31
In this essay I argue against Bernard I. Cohen’s influential account of Newton’s methodology in the Principia: the “Newtonian Style”. The crux of Cohen’s account is the successive adaptation of “menta...
This paper investigates Newton’s ontology of space in order to determine its commitment, if any, to both neo-Platonism, which posits an incorporeal basis for space, and substantivalism, which regards ...
Newton's Metaphysics of Space: A “Tertium Quid” betwixt Substantivalism and Relationism, or merely A “God of the (Rational Mechanical) Gaps”?
Newton space force substantivalism relationism Cambridge neo-Platonism
2008/3/31
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...
This paper investigates Newton’s ontology of space in order to determine its commitment, if any, to both neo-Platonism, which posits an incorporeal basis for space, and substantivalism, which regards ...
Andover Newton Theological School（ANTS）（图）
Andover Newton Theological School 神学 ANTS theology
2007/12/24
Founded in 1807, Andover Newton is the oldest graduate school of theology in the United States. Today, over 400 students from 35 denominations are enrolled, creating a lively, ecumenical environment f...
Mathematical Models in Newton’s Principia: A New View of the “Newtonian Style”
Isaac Newton Principia (hypothetical-deductive) methodology I. Bernard Cohen Newtonian Style models models as mediators
2011/9/7
In this essay I argue against Bernard I. Cohen’s influential account of Newton’s methodology in the Principia: the “Newtonian Style”. The crux of Cohen’s account is the successive adaptation of “menta...
All Alone in the Universe: Individuals in Descartes and Newton
individuation Cartesian natural philosophy Newtonian mechanics
2011/9/7
In this paper we argue that the primary issue in Descartes� Principles of Philosophy, Part II, articles 1-40, is the problem of individuating bodies. We demonstrate that Descartes departs from ...