milie Du Chtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science Brading Katherine
milie Du Chtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science Brading Katherine The centerpiece of milie Du Chtelet's philosophy of science is her Foundations of Physics, first published in 1740. Du…
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milie Du Chtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science Brading Katherine
The centerpiece of milie Du Chtelet's philosophy of science is her Foundations of Physics, first published in 1740. Du Chtelet sought to resolve these issues within a single philosophical framework that builds on her critique and appraisal of all the leading alternatives (Cartesian, Newtonian, Leibnizian, and so forth) of the period. 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 on one another, and whether gravity is an action-at-a-distance force.
This book argues that Du Chtelet put her finger on The text is remarkable for being the first to attempt such a synthetic project, and even more so for the accessibility and clarity of the writing.