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Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book Atti: Metaphysics and philosophy of nature written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Professor of Philosophy Walter Ott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192859234
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature written by Professor of Philosophy Walter Ott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can seem obvious that we live in a world governed by laws of nature, yet it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came to the fore. Ever since, it has been attended by controversy: what does it mean to say that Boyle's law governs the expansion of a gas, or that the planets obey the law of gravity? Laws are rules that permit calculations and predictions. What does the universe have to be like, if it is to play by them? This book sorts the most prominent answers into three families. Laws first arose in a theological context; they govern events only because God enforces them. Those wishing to reverse the order of explanation, and argue that the powers of objects fix the laws, struggled to claim for themselves the results of new science. The stand-off between these two families bred a third which rejects any kind of enforcer for the laws. On this view, laws summarize events; they do not govern anything. This book traces the fortunes of the three families, from their origins to the present day. It uses objections - and the revisions needed to answer them - to produce the best representative of each. Along the way, it tries to settle the rules of this game, the debate over laws of nature. What should we expect from an account of laws? The book aims to help readers develop their own desiderata and judge the merits of the competing positions.
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Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Atti Del XII Congresso Internazionale Di Filosofia written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacques Maritain
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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of nature written by Jacques Maritain and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317489497
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Nature written by Brian Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Philosophy of Nature," Brian Ellis provides a clear and forthright general summation of, and introduction to, the new essentialist position. Although the theory that the laws of nature are immanent in things, rather than imposed on them from without, is an ancient one, much recent work has been done to revive interest in essentialism and "The Philosophy of Nature" is a distinctive contribution to this lively current debate. Brian Ellis exposes the philosophical and scientific credentials of the prevailing Humean metaphysic as less than compelling and makes the case for new essentialism as an alternative metaphysical perspective in lucid and unambiguous terms. This book develops this alternative metaphysic and considers the consequences for philosophy, and for some other areas of investigation, of working with such a metaphysic. Ellis argues that these consequences are profound and that a new essentialism provides a comprehensive new philosophy of nature for a modern scientific understanding of the world.
Author : Lucretius Lucretius
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781536884661
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Nature of Things written by Lucretius Lucretius and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature of Things is the ancient Roman philosopher Lucretius's attempt to explain the nature of Epicurean philosophy to the everyday audience. Otherwise known by its Latin title, De rerum natura, this scientific work takes the form of a lengthy didactic poem. The Nature of Things is in many ways an early form of popular science - seeks to clarify and make readily understandable the principles of philosophy pioneered by Democritus and supported by Epicurus: Atomism - whereby two forms of reality are possible; nature and void. The poem is wide ranging, explaining the classical theories then in vogue regarding the creation of the planet Earth, the composition of the human mind and soul, and how human beings feel the sensations and think the thoughts that they do. The celestial bodies, a source of curiosity for many in antiquity, are explained together with phenomena such as comets. Markedly opposed to the Roman state religion, whereby a pantheon of Gods held sway over specific parts of the world, Lucretius poem vaunts the rudimentary scientific approach of antiquity based on observations, recordings and logical, theoretical posits. Lucretius himself had a withering attitude to religion, believing that humanity would be better off without the 'dread' felt from entertaining the various deities. A philosophical classic over two millennia since its initial publication, this edition presents the Nature of Things unabridged and properly formatted.
Author : Jean W. Rioux
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592446604
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Nature, the Soul, and God written by Jean W. Rioux and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-04-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete title of one of the most famous works ever written, Isaac Newton's Principia, was actually Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Sadly, many contemporary philosophers would be hard-pressed to say just what natural philosophy (or philosophy of nature) is all about. Without question, the philosophy of nature has received relatively less attention than ethics and metaphysics for some time. In Nature, the Soul, and God, Jean W. Rioux has brought together a number of important readings in natural philosophy, from the Pre-Socratic philosophers and Aristotle to the 19th-century entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre. Collectively, they present three ways in which one might conceive of the natural world in a pre-scientific reflection upon the way things are: either the classical materialism of Empedocles, Democritus, and Epicurus, the formalism of Plato, or the hylomorphic view espoused and defended by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. In the sections following the consideration of nature are selections from these representative views concerning the immortality of the soul and the existence of God. Through the medium of philosophers both ancient and modern, Rioux makes the point that one's philosophical account of the natural world will have an impact upon how one regards human nature, as well as divinity itself. It all begins with nature.
Author : William Tudor Jones
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Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nature, Thought, and Personal Experience written by William Tudor Jones and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : St. George Jackson Mivart
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Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Nature and Thought written by St. George Jackson Mivart and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry J. Koren
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Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (396 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animate Nature written by Henry J. Koren and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. M. Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521314817
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (148 download)
Download or read book What is a Law of Nature? written by D. M. Armstrong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of a crucial and controversial topic in metaphysics and the philosophy of science: the status of the laws of nature. D. M. Armstrong works out clearly and in comprehensive detail a largely original view that laws are relations between properties or universals. The theory is continuous with the views on universals and more generally with the scientific realism that Professor Armstrong has advanced in earlier publications. He begins here by mounting an attack on the orthodox and sceptical view deriving from Hume that laws assert no more than a regularity of coincidence between instances of properties. In doing so he presents what may become the definitive statement of the case against this position. Professor Armstrong then goes on to establish his own theory in a systematic manner defending it against the most likely objections, and extending both it and the related theory of universals to cover functional and statistical laws. This treatment of the subject is refreshingly concise and vivid: it will both stimulate vigorous professional debate and make an excellent student text.
Author : De Witt Henry Parker
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Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Self and Nature written by De Witt Henry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : North Whitehead Alfred
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9359951684
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (599 download)
Download or read book The Concept of NATURE written by North Whitehead Alfred and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred North Whitehead's observe of "The Concept of Nature" is a philosophical adventure that ties together metaphysics, technological know-how, and the essence of fact in a very complicated manner. Whitehead, a famous scientist and logician, wants to trade the manner we think about nature by way of giving us a technique-based totally metaphysics. In the book, Whitehead questions the not unusual concept that mind and consider are separate things. He does this by way of imparting the concept of "organism" as a basic unit of truth. He says that the world is a complex internet of activities that are all related and changing all the time thru a procedure referred to as "becoming." According to Whitehead, nature is not continually a hard and fast set of cloth matters however a living, linked gadget. Whitehead's recognition on how things are connected and the way change in no way stops suggests that he changed into no longer wondering within the mechanistic way that most people did at the time. He appears at what cutting-edge advances in remedy mean from a philosophical point of view, presenting a brand new manner of wondering that connects technological know-how and philosophy. People who study "The Concept of Nature" are asked to rethink how they consider the natural world. They are instructed to peer reality as a chain of linked events in place of a group of separate matters. Philosophers, scientists, and people who want to recognize the private mysteries of the arena are nonetheless talking about Whitehead's concept-frightening exploration.
Author : Henry Samuel Boase
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Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Nature written by Henry Samuel Boase and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Q. McInerny
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ISBN 13 : 9780976037026
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Nature written by Dennis Q. McInerny and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Quinton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780710089038
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Things written by Anthony Quinton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1973 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irving Singer
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Harmony of Nature and Spirit written by Irving Singer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text argues that separating nature and the life of spirit not only precludes an understanding of how consciousness, awareness of value, and the pursuit of ideal possibilities originate in nature but also masks the discovery of how experience can be me
