Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science

ISBN-13: 9781032094137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 132 str.

Katherine Brading

Opis

The Foundations contains epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, mechanics, and physics. This book argues that Du Châtelet put her finger on the central problems that lay at the intersection of physics and metaphysics at the time, and tackled them drawing on the most up-to-date resources available.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Method

3. Matter, Body, Force

4. Bodies in Action

O autorze

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).