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Author : Ann Congleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Metaphysics of Space and Time in Leibniz and Whitehead written by Ann Congleton and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward J. Khamara
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110328305
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Space, Time, and Theology in the Leibniz-Newton Controversy written by Edward J. Khamara and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the famous Correspondence with Clarke, which took place during the last year of Leibniz’s life, Leibniz advanced several arguments purporting to refute the absolute theory of space and time that was held by Newton and his followers. The main aim of this book is to reassess Leibniz’s attack on the Newtonian theory in so far as he relied on the principle of the identity of indiscernibles. The theological side of the controversy is not ignored but isolated and discussed in the last three chapters, which deal with problems connected with the notions of omnipotence and omniscience.
Author : Michael Futch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402082371
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Time and Space written by Michael Futch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leibniz’s metaphysics of space and time stands at the centre of his philosophy and is one of the high-water marks in the history of the philosophy of science. In this work, Futch provides the first systematic and comprehensive examination of Leibniz’s thought on this subject. In addition to elucidating the nature of Leibniz’s relationalism, the book fills a lacuna in existing scholarship by examining his views on the topological structure of space and time, including the unity and unboundedness of space and time. It is shown that, like many of his more recent counterparts, Leibniz adopts a causal theory of time where temporal facts are grounded on causal facts, and that his approach to time represents a precursor to non-tensed theories of time. Futch then goes on to situate Leibniz’s philosophy of space and time within the broader context of his idealistic metaphysics and natural theology. Emphasizing the historical background of Leibniz’s thought, the book also places him in dialogue with contemporary philosophy of science, underscoring the enduring philosophical interest of Leibniz’s metaphysics of time and space.
Author : Michael Futch
Publisher : Springer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9781402082368
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Time and Space written by Michael Futch and published by Springer Verlag. This book was released on 2008-06-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leibniz’s metaphysics of space and time stands at the centre of his philosophy and is one of the high-water marks in the history of the philosophy of science. In this work, Futch provides the first systematic and comprehensive examination of Leibniz’s thought on this subject. In addition to elucidating the nature of Leibniz’s relationalism, the book fills a lacuna in existing scholarship by examining his views on the topological structure of space and time, including the unity and unboundedness of space and time. It is shown that, like many of his more recent counterparts, Leibniz adopts a causal theory of time where temporal facts are grounded on causal facts, and that his approach to time represents a precursor to non-tensed theories of time. Futch then goes on to situate Leibniz’s philosophy of space and time within the broader context of his idealistic metaphysics and natural theology. Emphasizing the historical background of Leibniz’s thought, the book also places him in dialogue with contemporary philosophy of science, underscoring the enduring philosophical interest of Leibniz’s metaphysics of time and space.
Author : Richard T. W. Arthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192849077
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity written by Richard T. W. Arthur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Arthur gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers. These are analysed in historical context, but also with an eye to their contemporary relevance. Leibniz's views on relativity have been extremely influential, first on Mach, and then on Einstein, while his novel approach to geometry in his analysis situs inspired many later developments in geometry. Arthur expounds the latter in some detail, explaining its relationship to Leibniz's metaphysics of space and the grounding of motion, and defending Leibniz's views on the relativity of motion against charges of inconsistency. The brilliance of his work on time, though, has not been so well appreciated, and Arthur attempts to remedy this through a detailed discussion of Leibniz's relational theory of time, showing how it underpins his theory of possible worlds, his complex account of contingency, and his highly original treatment of the continuity of time, providing formal treatments in an appendix. In other appendices, Arthur provides translations of previously untranslated writings by Leibniz on analysis situs and on Copernicanism, as well as an essay on Leibniz's philosophy of relations. In his introductory chapter he explains how the framework for the book is provided by the interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics he defended in his earlier Monads, Composition, and Force (OUP 2018, winner of the 2019 annual JHP Book Prize for best book in the history of philosophy published in 2018).
Author : Mays, W
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317852044
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Whitehead written by Mays, W and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This is Volume VII of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1959, after studying Whitehead’s philosophy of applying mathematical logic to physical problems, the author’s main purpose here is to illustrate the two principles upon which the Philosophy of Organism is based, (a) its logical or structural side, and (b) its physical-experiential side. Part I deals with (a) and Part II with (b).
Author : P. Basile
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230242197
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Leibniz, Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation written by P. Basile and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the reader to Whitehead's complex and often misunderstood metaphysics by showing that it deals with questions about the nature of causation originally raised by the philosophy of Leibniz. Whitehead's philosophy is an attempt at rehabilitating Leibniz's theory of monads by recasting it in terms of novel ontological categories
Author : Richard Arthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191944345
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Leibniz on Space, Time, and Relativity written by Richard Arthur and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource presents fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts, as well as his published papers. These are analysed in historical context, but also with an eye to their contemporary relevance.
Author : M. F. Cleugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042968519X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Time and its Importance in Modern Thought written by M. F. Cleugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1937. This book is a classic work on the philosophy of time, looking at the pshychology, physics and logic of time before investigating the views of Kant, Bergson, Alexander, McTaggart and Dunne. The second half of the book contains more indepth consideration of prediction, the concepts of past and future, and reality.
Author : Remy Lestienne
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 180061179X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher Of Time written by Remy Lestienne and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), a mathematician and logician by training, was the author of highly original works at the crossroads of science and philosophy which explore the nature of the world around us and its temporal flow.Convinced that everyday terms distort reality, Whitehead invented or borrowed terms more appropriate to his project. The word 'Process', which gives its title to his most famous work Process and Reality (1929), is central to his thinking. Process introduces his vision of nature as a succession of crystallizations, each of which proves the finite granularity of time: the instant does not exist. It also implies a confrontation with the theory of relativity and quantum physics. Whitehead's perspective allows for the occurrence of creative novelties, but necessitates that the world cooperates with a deity, the role of which is examined in this book's last chapter.In Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher of Time, the author mixes biographical elements with intellectual advances, from logicism to philosophies of nature. A compelling introduction to Whitehead's demanding work, this book deciphers a metaphysical landscape often considered too abstract to be approachable, but points out the philosopher's imperfections with respect to the scientific advances of our time.
Author : Friedrich Rapp
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791402030
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Whitehead's Metaphysics of Creativity written by Friedrich Rapp and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the problems raised by Whiteheads metaphysics of creativitymetaphysics focused on dynamic becoming rather than on static beingand the proposed solutions to those problems. Whitehead adds a new dimension to the issues of traditional metaphysics by taking into account the world view of our civilization and the results of modern science. His all-embracing speculative cosmology provides a synthesis which goes far beyond the details considered in modern analytic philosophy. To him, the principle of novelty is the universal of universals, and in his system of categories, he aims at avoiding the bifurcation of nature into a physical and mental pole.
Author : Christopher Browne Garnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Kantian Philosophy of Space written by Christopher Browne Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward J. Khamara
Publisher : Ontos Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783938793268
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Space, Time, and Theology in the Leibniz-Newton Controversy written by Edward J. Khamara and published by Ontos Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the famous Correspondence with Clarke, which took place during the last year of Leibniz's life, Leibniz advanced several arguments purporting to refute the absolute theory of space and time that was held by Newton and his followers. The main aim of this book is to reassess Leibniz's attack on the Newtonian theory in so far as he relied on the principle of the identity of indiscernibles. The theological side of the controversy is not ignored but isolated and discussed in the last three chapters, which deal with problems connected with the notions of omnipotence and omniscience. Edward J. Khamara is a retired senior lecturer in philosophy who is currentlyan honorary research associate at the School of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne (Australia).
Author : M. Capek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401017271
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Concepts of Space and Time written by M. Capek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert DiSalle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139452663
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Understanding Space-Time written by Robert DiSalle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the history of space-time physics, from Newton to Einstein, as a philosophical development DiSalle reflects our increasing understanding of the connections between ideas of space and time and our physical knowledge. He suggests that philosophy's greatest impact on physics has come about, less by the influence of philosophical hypotheses, than by the philosophical analysis of concepts of space, time and motion, and the roles they play in our assumptions about physical objects and physical measurements. This way of thinking leads to interpretations of the work of Newton and Einstein and the connections between them. It also offers ways of looking at old questions about a priori knowledge, the physical interpretation of mathematics, and the nature of conceptual change. Understanding Space-Time will interest readers in philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and physics, as well as readers interested in the relations between physics and philosophy.
Author : F. Bradford Wallack
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873954044
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics written by F. Bradford Wallack and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While my book attempts to reflect the full range of scholarly debate, I have also attempted to make it useful to anyone interested in Whitehead. To this end, I have introduced the Whiteheadian terms one by one, explaining each in the light of my interpretation, and I have used examples wherever possible. I try to show that Whitehead intended his philosophy have a place in our lives by reshaping our common conceptions, and that he did not intend it to be relegated to purely abstract or esoteric application." -- F. Bradford Wallack The twentieth century has seen the greatest innovations in philosophical cosmology since Newton and Descartes, and Alfred North Whitehead was the first and greatest of the philosophers to work out these innovations in systematic ways. In a book that will be controversial in the philosophical community, F. Bradford Wallack argues that interpretations widely accepted by Whiteheadians need revaluation because these interpretations are based on materialist and substantialist assumptions that Whitehead sought to replace. Specifically, she proposes a thorough revision of accepted interpretations of Whitehead's concept of the actual entity. Wallack then elucidates Whitehead's ideas in order of their increasing dependence upon other basic Whiteheadian terms to complete the study of Whiteheadian time and to clarify its purpose within the cosmology of Process and Reality. Whitehead's philosophy then emerges as more intelligible and cohesive than is generally believed.
Author : Richard T. W. Arthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192665591
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity written by Richard T. W. Arthur and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers. These are analysed in historical context, but also with an eye to their contemporary relevance in the philosophy of time, space, and spacetime. Leibniz's views on relativity have been extremely influential, first on Mach, and then on Einstein, while his attempts to provide a formal theory of space through his analysis situs inspired many later developments in geometry. Expounding this novel approach to geometry in some detail, Arthur explains its relationship to Leibniz's metaphysics of space and the grounding of motion, and defends Leibniz's views on the relativity of motion against charges of inconsistency. The brilliance of Leibniz's work on time, though, has not been so well appreciated, and Arthur attempts to remedy this through a detailed discussion of Leibniz's relational theory of time, showing how it underpins his theory of possible worlds, his complex account of contingency, and his highly original treatment of the continuity of time, providing formal treatments in an appendix. In other appendices, Arthur provides translations of previously untranslated writings by Leibniz on analysis situs and on Copernicanism, as well as an essay on Leibniz's philosophy of relations. In his introductory chapter he explains the main theses of Leibniz's non-idealist metaphysics he defended in his earlier Monads, Composition and Force (OUP 2018), and how they provide the framework for the interpretations presented here"--Publisher's description
