| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 167 pages) |
| Contents |
The First Task of the Philosophy of Nature: Problem of Elementarity -- The Philosophical Myth of Creation: The Platonic Philosophy of Nature -- Aristotle's Physics --Aristotle's Method of Cosmological Speculation -- Descartes' Mechanism -- Isaac Newton and the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy -- The World of Leibniz: The Best of All Possible Worlds -- Immanuel Kant: The A Priori Conditions of the Sciences -- The Romantic Philosophy of Nature -- The Cosmology of Whitehead: The Universe as Process -- Popper's Open Universe -- Science as Philosophy -- Problems and Methods of the Philosophy of Nature |
| Summary |
The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature"--Space, time, causality, the structure of the universe -- are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories. This book traces the complex paths that discussion of these topics has followed, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the grand unified theories of contemporary science. In the light of this historical development, it becomes clear that modern science gives us not only a technological power over the world, but also a deeper understanding of physical reality. In this sense, science could be regarded as an heir to the traditional "philosophy of nature". Moreover, the reader will learn why science itself deserves to be the subject of philosophical reflection |
| Analysis |
filosofie |
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philosophy |
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fysica |
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physics |
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geschiedenis |
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history |
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natuur |
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nature |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Filosofie (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English translated from the Polish |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Sciences sociales.
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Droit.
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Sciences humaines.
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Science -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011921699 |
| ISBN |
9783642177057 |
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3642177050 |
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9783642177040 |
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3642177042 |
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1283085577 |
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9781283085571 |
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9786613085573 |
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661308557X |
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