Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science

Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science

Omodeo, Pietro Daniel; Garau, Rodolfo

Springer International Publishing AG

09/2019

342

Dura

Inglês

9783319673769

15 a 20 dias

694

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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 Juergen 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.
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Early Modern Epistemology;Epistemology of Contingency;Metaphysical Contingency;Natural Contingency;Principle of Contingency;Problems of Contingency