Titlebook: Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant; Philosophy and Scien Wolfgang Lefèvre Book 20011st edition Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 200

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Leibniz’ Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physicsnew period in the intellectual biography of Leibniz that would later result in his well-known metaphysics of individual substances. It was in the 1680s that these ideas began to surface in various of his papers, such as ., published in 1684, but also in the manuscript . written in the same year. In

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The Limits of Intelligibility: The Status of Physical Science in D’Alembert’s Philosophy of faith? After the great successes of Galileo and Newton, after the triumph of the new analytical methods of Varignon, the Bernoullis and Euler (whose . appeared in 1736), comes the time for theoretical reorganisation, for systematic presentation. But it is also time for new inquiries, into celest

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Order of Nature and Orders of Sciencetood. From today’s point of view, one might be tempted to say that philosophers and scientists in the seventeenth and even more in the eighteenth century became aware of the importance of mathematics as a means of ‘representing’ physical phenomena or as an ‘instrument’ of deductive explanation and p

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Enlightenment Scotland’s Philosophico-Chemical PhysicsNewtonians of course, were the most significant Scottish professors of natural philosophy in the eighteenth century — Anderson for four decades at Glasgow University, from 1757 until his death in 1796, and Robison for three decades at Edinburgh University, from 1774 until his death in 1805. Anderson

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Materialistic Theories of Mind and Brainns, concerning its nature, its philosophical inspiration or its aims, to name but a few. One can even doubt whether such a label, despite being consecrated by usage, has any real meaning, as there are great differences between those who have been included in the group of eighteenth-century French ma

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Kant’s Second Paralogism in Contexticate anything of the contemporary debates from which his ideas sprang. Some of this context is of course well known, like the opposition between rationalism and empirism, or the contemporary import of Humean scepticism. In the first edition (1781) of the . (A redaction), in the chapter on the “Para

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0068-0346 iples of classification in the life sciences. As an appendix, a critical edition and first translation into English of Newton‘s .scholia. from David Gregory‘s Estate on the Propositions IV through IX Book III of his .Principia. is added.978-94-015-9729-6Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942