1st Edition
Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science
By Katherine Brading
Copyright 2019
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
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The centerpiece of Émilie Du Châtelet’s philosophy of science is her Foundations of Physics , first published in 1740. The Foundations contains epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, mechanics, and physics, including such pressing issues of the time as whether there are atoms, the appropriate roles of God and of hypotheses in scientific theorizing, how (if at all) bodies are capable of acting... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Matter, Body, Force
4. Bodies in Action
Biography
Katherine Brading is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. She works primarily on philosophy of physics from the late 16th century to the present day. She is coeditor of Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (2003).
