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Books on: newtonian philosophy

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Kant's Newtonian Revolution in Philosophy

Book by Robert Hahn; Southern Illinois University Press, 1988

Subjects:

Kant, Immanuel--1724-1804, Kant, Immanuel--1724-1804--Contributions in scientific method, Newton, Isaac--Sir--1642-1727--Contributions in scientific method

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Kants Newtonian Revolution in Philosophy By Robert Hahn...Robert, 1952- Kants Newtonian revolution in philosophy by Robert Hahn p...Watson - Editors Kants Newtonian Revolution in Philosophy CHAPTER 1 Introduction...
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Keynes and the Neoclassical Synthesis: Einsteinian versus Newtonian Macroeconomics

Book by Teodoro Dario Togati; Routledge, 1998

Subjects:

Economics--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Hicks, John Richard--Sir--1904-, Keynes, John Maynard--1883-1946, Keynesian Economics, Macroeconomics, Neoclassical School Of Economics

Collections: Entire Library

This remarkable book offers a critical assessment of the Neoclassical Synthesis, long regarded as the standard interpretation of Keynes. It offers a fresh interpretation of Keynes, drawing an unusual distinction between Einsteinian and Newtonian macroeconomics.
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Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science

Book by Russell McCormmach; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Cavendish, Henry--1731-1810, Chemists--Great Britain--Biography, Heat--History--18th Century, Physics--Great Britain--History--18th Century

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

With a never-before published paper by Lord Henry Cavendish, as well as a biography on him, this book offers a fascinating discourse on the rise of scientific attitudes and ways of knowing. A pioneering British physicist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Cavendish was widely considered to ...
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With a never-before published paper by Lord Henry Cavendish, as well as a biography on him, this book offers a fascinating discourse on the rise of scientific attitudes and ways of knowing. A pioneering British physicist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Cavendish was widely considered to be the first full-time scientist in the modern sense. Through the lens of this unique thinker and writer, this book is about the birth of modern science.
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American Philosophy: The Early Schools

Book by I. Woodbridge Riley; Dodd, Mead, 1907

Subjects:

Philosophy, American

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...approaching the sensualistic philosophy of the French schools. Nevertheless...University, combining the Newtonian mechanics with the ancient...of the interrelations of philosophy and politics. Here, as has...Bookman , May, 1906. II PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS THE conception...
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Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings

Book by H. S. Thayer, Isaac Newton; Hafner Publishing, 1953

Subjects:

Newton, Isaac--Sir--1642-1727

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...of man. Thus the Newtonian philosophy of nature was made...imposing critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant...the assumptions of Newtonian mechanics. Any critical...identify them. The Newtonian philosophy of nature--as distinguished...

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Journal Articles on: newtonian philosophy

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The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture

Journal article by Martin Tamny; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Professor Feingold presents the reader with a history of Newtonianism. We are introduced to Newtons own early struggles with the...nature of his studies: was he doing mathematics, science, or philosophy? Newton had early rejected Descartess vortex account of the...
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John Hutchinson's Critique of Newtonian Heterodoxy

Journal article by John C. English; Church History, Vol. 68, 1999

Subjects:

Church History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...in turn. (1) The Newtonian philosophy encouraged "Arianism...Trinity and his Newtonian natural philosophy. These errors were...with his natural philosophy. However, Jones...recognized that Newtonianism, in one form or...
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Philosophy as Science: "Function" and "Energy" in Cassirer's "Complex System" of Symbolic Forms

Journal article by Fabien Capeilleres; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 61, 2007

Subjects:

Cassirer, Ernst--Influence, Cassirer, Ernst--Works, Philosophy of science--Analysis, Philosophy of science--Social aspects, Science--Analysis, Science--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Science--Social aspects, Symbolic anthropology--Analysis

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...success of the Newtonian physics, inaugurated...development of philosophy. In that perspective...Euclidian geometry, Newtonian physics, moral...whole field of philosophy," is among the...Cohen calls "the Newtonian style." (124) Kants...science other than philosophy, but they are constitutive...
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The Ambition of Scottish Philosophy

Journal article by Gordon Graham; The Monist, Vol. 90, 2007

Subjects:

Hume, David--Criticism and interpretation, Hume, David--Works, Political philosophy--Analysis, Political science--Analysis, Political science--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Scottish enlightenment--Analysis

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...philosophy modeled on Newtonian natural philosophy. In a letter written...equally critical of Humes Newtonian ambitions for philosophy, that is to say the...philosophy modeled on Newtonian natural philosophy, proved a failure. No...
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The Importance and Relevance of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

Journal article by Sebastian Rand; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 61, 2007

Subjects:

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich--Influence, Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich--Works, Phenomenology of Spirit and the Philosophy of Right (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy of nature--Analysis

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...for instance, Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature, ed. Stephen Houlgate...SUNY Press, 1998); Hegel and Newtonianism, ed. Michael Petry (Boston...to say that Hegel rejects Newtonian physics generally, and presents...insistence that we understand the Philosophy of Nature as partly a priori...

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Magazine Articles on: newtonian philosophy

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Newtonian Math

Magazine article by Paul Newman; The Nation, Vol. 264, May 19, 1997

Subjects:

Gingrich, Newt--Social policy, United States. National Endowment for the Arts--Finance

Collections: Entire Library

Newtonian Math. by Paul Newman An unemployed, underweight sculptor cuffs me heavily about the head and shoulders...Ulysses, the Venus de Milo, The Catcher in the Rye -- pick your classic). If this throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater philosophy prevails, it ought to prevail in other government arenas as well. section The US. Army tragically downed two of its...
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Cyberspace and Newtonian Dreams

Magazine article by Nora Sayre; The Nation, Vol. 261, September 25, 1995

Subjects:

Internet--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Progress and Freedom Foundation--Conferences, meetings and seminars

Collections: Entire Library

Cyberspace and Newtonian Dreams. by Nora Sayre Intent on writing a new Constitution...questioners after her acolyte Nathaniel Branden gave lectures on her philosophy, Objectivism," in 1966: She grew more and more irrational even while...
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The False Dichotomy: Scientific Creativity and Utility

Magazine article by Lewis M. Brandscomb; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 16, Fall 1999

Subjects:

Government spending policy--Analysis, Research and development contracts, Government--Management, Research--Political aspects, Science and state--Social aspects, United States. Congress--Science and technology policy

Collections: Entire Library

...the Office of Naval Research (ONR) inherited much of Bushs philosophy, it was not until the late 1950s that an Advanced Research...emerge from military research agencies. Thus, NSF became a Newtonian agency in large measure, and the Jeffersonian concept would...
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Quantifying Quantum

Magazine article by Robert C. Whitten, Adam Demuro, Peter A. Pagan, William D. Hobey, Ralph Gillmann, David Haddon, Paula Haigh, Stephen M. Barr; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2007

Subjects:

Philosophy of science--Analysis, Quantum mechanics--Analysis, Quantum theory--Analysis, Science--Analysis, Science--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...unfazed that it brings back Newtonian determinism and mechanism...Pagels dismissal of Buddhist philosophy. While either classical mechanics...he completely ignores every philosophy of science except scientific...no thought to any competing philosophy, such as instrumentalism...
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Stoppard's 'Arcadia.'

Magazine article by David Guaspari; The Antioch Review, Vol. 54, Spring 1996

Subjects:

Arcadia (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Stoppard, Tom--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ambitiousness of genius: How complete is Newtonian science? What escapes its net? These...call this cosmology Thomasinas Improved Newtonian Universe. Valentine sees that Thomasinas...direction of time. The basic equations of Newtonian science run just as well backward as...

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Newspaper Articles on: newtonian philosophy

3 results

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When Reason Proved Earth's Rotation

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 1, 2004

Subjects:

Foucault, Leon

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...due. Raymond Petersen is a botanist and professor of biology at Howard University. He teaches a course in the history and philosophy of science. +++++ PENDULUM: LEON FOUCAULT AND THE TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE By Amir D. Aczel Atria Books, $25, 275 pages...
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Abolitionist Icon; Wilberforce Was Inspiration for Britain's Move to End Slavery

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 11, 2002

Subjects:

Jefferson, Thomas

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...as that read by John Wesley - books of poetry and fiction, philosophy and history. Wilberforce described his great change in 1795...the examples of Queen Esther or Daniel or Moses. It was the Newtonian understanding of calling that transformed Wilberforce, and...
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Grappling with Apple's Fall

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 3, 2003

Subjects:

Newton, Isaac

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...what had been regarded as the Newtonian absolutes of space and time...jettisoning much of the natural philosophy - the science of the great...John Keats lamented that "Philosophy will clip an Angels wings...Craige turned the principles of Newtonian physics to religion in his...

Encyclopedia Articles on: newtonian philosophy

5 results

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Science

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...is found, as in the case of Newtonian mechanics, which was shown...the study of the history and philosophy of science. The Beginnings...in physics and astronomy. Newtonian physics spread to the Continent...adherents of the older Cartesian philosophy and by disputes over priority...
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Voltaire, FranÇois Marie Arouet De

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...initiated the vogue of English philosophy and science that characterized...for bringing awareness of Newtonian physics to the Continent...succinctly Voltaires practical philosophy of common sense. The Final...status of actors. Voltaires Philosophy In his philosophy, based...
3.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...mathematica mathematical principles of natural philosophy (1687), one of the greatest milestones...Newtons Principia (1965); A. Koyre, Newtonian Studies (1965); I. B. Cohen, Introduction to Newtons Principia (1971) and The Newtonian Revolution (1983); M. S. Stayer, ed...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Huxley , a scientist and popularizer of Darwinian theory; and John Henry, Cardinal Newman , who wrote earnestly of religion, philosophy, and education. The founders of Communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , researched and wrote their books in the free...
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Quantum Theory

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...orbit. Just as the results of relativity approximate those of Newtonian physics when ordinary speeds are involved, the results of...Principles of the Quantum Theory (1930) and Physics and Philosophy (1958); G. Gamow, Thirty Years that Shook Physics (1966...

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