Newton

Andrew Janiak is the Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, where he directs the graduate program in history and philosophy of science, technology and medicine. He is the author of Newton as Philosopher (2008), the co-editor of Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (with Eric Schliesser, 2012), and the editor of Newton: Philosophical Writings (2014, second edition). He is associate editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

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• Acknowledgments viiiPreface ix1 Life And Times 11.1 Background And Childhood 41.2 Early Years In Cambridge 51.3 Mature Years In Cambridge And London 81.4 Final Years 112 Was Newton A Scientist? 173 Making Philosophy Experimental: Boyle And Hobbes And Hooke And Newton 373.1 Boyle’s Debate With Hobbes 413.2 Hooke’s Debate With Newton 494 Newton’s Struggle With Descartes 634.1 Setting The Historical Stage 634.2 Descartes’s Metaphysical Foundation For Natural Philosophy 644.3 Newton’s New Natural Philosophy: From De Gravitatione To The Principia 694.4 Newton’s New Metaphysics: De Gravitatione As Foundational Text 785 Making Philosophy Mathematical 895.1 Applying Mathematics To Nature 895.2 Applying Mathematics To Nature: The Cartesian Legacy 965.3 Newton’s Program In Natural Philosophy 1005.4 Newton’s Mathematical Treatment Of Force 1046 Newton’s Struggle With Leibniz 1176.1 Newton Versus Leibniz, 1693–1712 1186.2 The Leibniz–Clarke Correspondence, 1715–1716 1297 Newton’s God 1397.1 Newton’s Unique Approach To Theology And Natural Philosophy 1517.2 Newton’s Philosophical God 1617.3 The God Of The Philosophers And The God Of The Bible 167Bibliography 177Index 192