Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Garau, Rodolfo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 332
• Θέματα: History.; Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; History of Science.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy of Science.

This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements - epistemological, philosophical, material, as well as theological and, broadly speaking, intellectual. With contributions ranging from fields as diverse as the histories of phy...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The Principle of Contingency from Medieval Physics to Early Modern Epistemology; Pietro D. Omodeo and Rodolfo Garau
• PART I: METAPHYSICAL AND NATURAL CONTINGENCY
• Chapter 2: Scholastic Views on Causality and the Quantification of Natural Phenomena; Magali Roques
• Chapter 3: Secundum Quid and Contingentia: Scholastic Reminiscences in Early Modern Mechanics; Pietro D. Omodeo and Jürgen Renn
• Chapter 4: Practical Knowledge and Contingency in the Renaissance
• Chapter 5: Contingency and Necessity in Renaissance Astrology
• Chapter 6: Two Early Modern Problems of Contingency: Irregularity and the Laws of Motion, and the Status of Secondary Qualities; Rodolfo Garau
• Chapter 7: Dealing with Contingency in Early Modern Mathematics
• Chapter 8: Sufficient Reason and the Vagaries of Keplerian Matter; Jonathan Regier
• Chapter 9: Is Physiology the Domain of Necessity or Contingency in Descartes's Physics? Balint Kekedi
• Chapter 10: Contingency in Early Modern Life Sciences
• PART II: THE EXPERIENCE AND THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF CONTINGENCY
• Chapter 11: Facing Complexity: Experience and Statistics; Stephen Gaukroger
• Chapter 12: Ars Experimentandi. Laws of Nature, Matterly Objects and Contingent Circumstances; Enrico Pasini
• Chapter 13: Experimental Contingency and Mechanical Laws in Robert Hooke's Matter Theory; Francesco G. Sacco
• Chapter 14: Optics and Contingency
• Chapter 15: Contingency and Astronomical Observation; Ofer Gal
• Chapter 15: Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Language Projects to Face the Problem of Contingency; Judith Kaplan
• Chapter 16: Newtonian Physics and Contingency.