Newtons Physics Conceptual Structure by Bechler (14 results)

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Three events, which happened all within the same week some ten years ago, set me on the track which the book describes. The first was a reading of Emile Meyerson works in the course of a prolonged research on Einstein's relativity theory, which sent me back to Meyerson's Ident ity and Reality, where I read and reread the striking chapter on 'Ir rationality'. In my earlier researches into the origins of French Conven tionalism I came to know similar views, all apparently deriving from Emile Boutroux's doctoral thesis of 1874 De fa contingence des lois de la nature and his notes of the 1892-3 course he taught at the Sorbonne De ['idee de fa loi naturelle dans la science et la philosophie contempo raines. But never before was the full effect of the argument so suddenly clear as when I read Meyerson. On the same week I read, by sheer accident, Ernest Moody's two parts paper in the JHIof 1951, 'Galileo and Avempace'. Put near Meyerson's thesis, what Moody argued was a striking confirmation: it was the sheer irrationality of the Platonic tradition, leading from A vem pace to Galileo, which was the working conceptual force behind the notion of a non-appearing nature, active all the time but always sub merged, as it is embodied in the concept of void and motion in it.…

Condition: New. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 606 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1012. . 1991. Hardback. . . . .

Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - I: The Tradition.- One: Aristotelian and Platonic Conceptions of Explanation.- Two: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature and Theory of Potentiality.- Three: Plato's Concept of the Actual and His Philosophy of Nature.- II: The Logical Revolution.- Four: The Copernican Harmony.- Five: Bacon's Informative Logic.- Six: Informativity and Paradox: Galileo's Conception of the Nature of Physical Reality.- Seven: Descartes' Informative Logic.- III: Newton's Physics and its Critics.- Eight: Actual Infinity and Newton's Calculus.- Nine: Newton's Logic of Space and Time.- Ten: Modern Newtonian Historiography and the Puzzle of Newton's Absolute Space.- Eleven: Absolute Motion and the Nature of Inertial Forces.- Twelve: Locke and the Meaning of 'Empiricism'.- Thirteen: Newton's Invention of the Problem of Induction.- Fourteen: Circularity and Newton's Philosophy of Nature.- Fifteen: Leibniz's Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature.- Sixteen: Berkeley's Aristotelian Critique of Newton's Physics.- Epilogue.- Appendix: Some Basic Ideas in Newton's Physics.- Notes.…

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Condition: New. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 606 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1012. . 1991. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardcover. Navy cloth/boards with gilt lettering. Sky blue dj with black lettering. 588 pp. with very occasional bw images. Volume 127 in the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science series. "The scientific revolution in the 17th century exhibits the irrationality typical of Platonic thought in the revolt against the rationality of Aristotle's theory. But then, the author argues, prevalent historiography has it all upside down, for there is no real conceptual difference between the true Aristotle and the picture of Newton's physics as it is drawn today. This implies that our contemporary historiography of the scientific revolution is actually an Aristotelian interpretation of modern physics. Thus armed, Bechler seeks to interpret the real structure of that physics, as Paltonic in essence. The rationality of the aristotelian philosophy of nature leads to a non-informational conception of explanation. The platonic revolt, which animated the new science, is a strictly informational conception, which views explanation as the combination of ontologically alien and unrelated elements, and so it basically irrational. Both ontologies, however, inescapably end up in the same place: against the straight and clean-cut verbalism of the aristotelian, the platonist is led to a cirularity in his science which he cannot excise, unless he gives up the ideal of certainty which he shares with the arsitotelian. Bechler shows this by a detailed analysis of Galileo, Descartes, and mainly Newton's physics. Newton's critics, Leibniz and Berkely, are then exhibited as the artistotelian reaction." - from the dj. VG and tight but with pencil underlining and margin notes by former owner, Robert Palter, noted Newtonian, science professor, and author of scientific texts.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Newton's Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution | Z. Bechler | Buch | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | xviii | Englisch | 1991 | Springer | EAN 9780792310549 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -I: The Tradition.- One: Aristotelian and Platonic Conceptions of Explanation.- Two: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature and Theory of Potentiality.- Three: Plato's Concept of the Actual and His Philosophy of Nature.- II: The Logical Revolution.- Four: The Copernican Harmony.- Five: Bacon's Informative Logic.- Six: Informativity and Paradox: Galileo's Conception of the Nature of Physical Reality.- Seven: Descartes' Informative Logic.- III: Newton's Physics and its Critics.- Eight: Actual Infinity and Newton's Calculus.- Nine: Newton's Logic of Space and Time.- Ten: Modern Newtonian Historiography and the Puzzle of Newton's Absolute Space.- Eleven: Absolute Motion and the Nature of Inertial Forces.- Twelve: Locke and the Meaning of 'Empiricism'.- Thirteen: Newton's Invention of the Problem of Induction.- Fourteen: Circularity and Newton's Philosophy of Nature.- Fifteen: Leibniz's Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature.- Sixteen: Berkeley's Aristotelian Critique of Newton's Physics.- Epilogue.- Appendix: Some Basic Ideas in Newton's Physics.- Notes.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 612 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -I: The Tradition.- One: Aristotelian and Platonic Conceptions of Explanation.- Two: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature and Theory of Potentiality.- Three: Plato's Concept of the Actual and His Philosophy of Nature.- II: The Logical Revolution.- Four: The Copernican Harmony.- Five: Bacon's Informative Logic.- Six: Informativity and Paradox: Galileo's Conception of the Nature of Physical Reality.- Seven: Descartes' Informative Logic.- III: Newton's Physics and its Critics.- Eight: Actual Infinity and Newton's Calculus.- Nine: Newton's Logic of Space and Time.- Ten: Modern Newtonian Historiography and the Puzzle of Newton's Absolute Space.- Eleven: Absolute Motion and the Nature of Inertial Forces.- Twelve: Locke and the Meaning of 'Empiricism'.- Thirteen: Newton's Invention of the Problem of Induction.- Fourteen: Circularity and Newton's Philosophy of Nature.- Fifteen: Leibniz's Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature.- Sixteen: Berkeley's Aristotelian Critique of Newton's Physics.- Epilogue.- Appendix: Some Basic Ideas in Newton's Physics.- Notes.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 612 pp. Englisch. …