Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Introduction.- 1. Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics (Alan Gabbey).- 2. Leibniz' Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics (Hartmut Hecht).- 3. The Limits of Intelligibility: The Status of Physical Sciences in d'Alemberts Philosophy (François De Gandt).- 4. "In Nature as in Geometry": Du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects (Aaron Wells).- 5. Order of Nature and Order of Science (Helmut Pulte).- 6. Samuel Clarke's Annotations in Jacques Rohault's Traité de Physique, and How They Contributed to Popularising Newton's Physics (Volkmar Schüller).- 7. "Feigning Hypotheses": non-Newtonian Approaches to Gravitation - Euler and Le Sage (Maria de Paz).- 8. Kant on Extension and Force: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton (Eric Watkins).- 9. Enlightenment Scotland's Philosophico-Chemical Physics (David Wilson ).- 10. Materialistic Theories ofMind and Brain (Ann Thomson ).- 11. Kant's Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think (Falk Wunderlich ).- 12. Cosmological Constellations: Varieties of Cosmology Available to Kant in 1755 (Stephen Howard).- 13. Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification and its Philosophical Contexts (Wolfgang Lefèvre ).- 14. Beyond Newton, Leibniz, and Kant: Constrained Motion and New Conceptual Foundations, 1740-1800 (Marius Stan).- Appendix 1.Newton's scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV trough IX Book III of his Principia.- Appendix 2. The Concepts of Immanuel Kant's Natural Philosophy (1747-1780): A Database Rendering their Explicit and Implicit Networks.