1st Edition
The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Introduction
Peter R. Anstey
1. Early Modern Mathematical Principles and Symmetry Arguments
James Franklin
2. The Development of Principles in Equity in the Seventeenth Century
Joe Campbell
3. Alchemical and Chymical Principles: Four Different Traditions
William R. Newman
4. The Two Comets of 1664–1665: A Dispersive Prism for French Natural Philosophical Principles
Sophie Roux
5. Corpuscularism and Experimental Philosophy in Domenico Guglielmini’s Reflections on Salts
Alberto Vanzo
6. The Principles of Spinoza’s Philosophy
Michael LeBuffe
7. Principles in Newton’s Natural Philosophy
Kirsten Walsh
8. Leibniz on Principles in Natural Philosophy: The Principle of the Equality of Cause and Effect
Daniel Garber
9. Experimental Philosophy and the Principles of Natural Religion in England, 1667–1720
Peter R. Anstey
10. A Conflict of Principles: Grotius’ Justice versus Hume’s Utility
Kiyoshi Shimokawa
Biography
Peter R. Anstey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He specializes in early modern philosophy with a particular focus on the philosophy of John Locke, experimental philosophy, and the philosophy of principles. He is the author of John Locke and Natural Philosophy (2011) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (2013).
"This fascinating collection provides case studies allowing the reader to appreciate how many and how varied are the ways in which the concept of a principle has been deployed and to what effect in the early modern period." – Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
