Newton’s Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.