The methodological heritage of Newton

The methodological heritage of Newton / edited by Robert E. Butts and John W. Davis.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Newton and his influence. His thought, like that of Aristotle and every other great thinker, underwent development which contemporary scholars are seeking to understand more clearly than did their predecessors, awed as they were by the overw...

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Main Authors: Butts, Robert E., Davis, John Whitney, 1921- (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1970.
Series:Heritage.
Subjects:
Newton, Isaac, > 1642-1727.
Newton, Isaac, > 1642-1727
Science > Philosophy.
Science > Philosophy
Instructional and educational works.
Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Robert E. Butts and John W. Davis
  • Hypotheses fingo / N. R. Hanson, Late of Yale University
  • The Clarke-Leibniz controversy / F. E. L. Priestley, University of Toronto
  • Berkeley, Newton, and space / John W. Davis, University of Western Ontario
  • Gravity and intelligibility : Newton to Kant / Gerd Buchdahl, University of Cambridge
  • Thomas Reid and the Newtonian turn of British methodological thought / L. L. Laudan, University of Pittsburgh
  • Whewell on Newton's rules of philosophizing / Robert E. Butts, University of Western Ontario
  • Classical empiricism / Paul K. Feyerabend, University of California, Berkeley.

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