Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics

AvTzuchien Tho

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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By treating the immanent philosophy of Leibniz’s dynamics, this book makes explicit the systematic aims and inherent limits of Leibniz's physical project, in addition to providing an alternative vision of the scientific understanding of the physical world in the late 17th and early 18th century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-07
Mått:155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:412 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Antal sidor:147
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319590530

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Tzuchien Tho is postdoctoral research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano and formerly at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Bucharest). He has published papers on the intersections of mathematics, ontology and natural science in the 17th and the 20th century.

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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What is structural causation?.- Chapter 3. The equivalence of hypotheses and dynamical causation.- Chapter 4. Continuity and causation in the dynamics.- Chapter 5. The changing concept of the equipollence of cause and effect.- Chapter 6. Vis viva in a monadic world.