Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant: Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century

Lefèvre, Wolfgang

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-18
  • 售價: $4,690
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,456
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 390
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031343425
  • ISBN-13: 9783031343421
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商品描述

This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset. As is well known, the interrelationship between philosophy and science underwent a profound change in the early modern period, in the course of which the sciences freed themselves from the conceptual framework of traditional metaphysics. The contributions of the volume focus on the eighteenth century, the critical and quite contradictory final phase of this process.

The volume distinguishes itself by tracing this transition process not only in the obvious case of the new mechanics - Newtonianism and analytic mechanics - but also by addressing new speculative philosophies of nature - early modern atomism or imponderable physics - and new metaphysical controversies such as the body-mind problem (Can matter think?) as well as developments in special scientific fields such as cosmology/astronomy and natural history.

The volume is written by historians of philosophy and the sciences of the early modern period and is intended primarily for specialists and students in these fields of knowledge. However, it is certainly also interesting and useful for cultural historians working on this period.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本擴展的新版本提供了對西方智識歷史的一個多面向洞察,該時期的特點是推測理論與經驗科學之間的平衡被重新調整。眾所周知,哲學與科學之間的相互關係在早期現代時期經歷了深刻的變化,科學在此過程中擺脫了傳統形而上學的概念框架。本書的貢獻集中於十八世紀,這一過程的關鍵且相當矛盾的最終階段。

本書的特色在於追溯這一過渡過程,不僅在顯而易見的新力學案例——牛頓主義和解析力學中,還涉及新的推測自然哲學——早期現代的原子論或不可測量物理學,以及新的形而上學爭論,如身心問題(物質能思考嗎?)以及在特定科學領域如宇宙學/天文學和自然歷史中的發展。

本書由早期現代時期的哲學和科學歷史學家撰寫,主要針對這些知識領域的專家和學生。然而,對於研究此時期的文化歷史學家來說,這本書無疑也具有趣味性和實用性。

作者簡介

Wolfgang Lefèvre taught philosophy in connection with history of science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1994 Senior Scholar and now Emeritus scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. His research is focused on the interrelations of technological and scientific knowledge in the early modern period. Recent publication: »Minerva meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature - 1450-1750 (2021).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Wolfgang Lefèvre 在柏林自由大學教授與科學史相關的哲學。自1994年以來,他是柏林馬克斯·普朗克科學史研究所的高級學者,現在是名譽學者。他的研究專注於早期現代時期技術與科學知識之間的相互關係。最近的出版作品:《Minerva meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature - 1450-1750 (2021)》。