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18Eighteenth Century The Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. By Voltaire. Trans. John Hanna. London: Frank Cass. 1967. Pp. xvi + 363. 90s (review)British Journal for the History of Science 4 (3): 300-300. 1969.
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57Existence, actuality and necessity: Newton on space and timeAnnals of Science 35 (5): 463-508. 1978.This study considers Newton's views on space and time with respect to some important ontologies of substance in his period. Specifically, it deals in a philosophico-historical manner with his conception of substance, attribute, existence, to actuality and necessity. I show how Newton links these “features” of things to his conception of God's existence with respect of infinite space and time. Moreover, I argue that his ontology of space and time cannot be understood without fully appreciating ho…Read more
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4Chapter two. God and efficient causationIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 36-81. 2009.
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5Chapter three. Seeing the implications of his causal views: The response to his criticsIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 82-110. 2009.
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6Chapter six. Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: The case of sensationIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 198-242. 2009.
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7Chapter 12. Natural Motion and Its Causes: Newton on the “Vis Insita” of BodiesIn Mary Louise Gill & James G. Lennox (eds.), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, Princeton University Press. pp. 305-330. 2017.
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6Chapter one. From method to epistemology and from metaphysics to the epistemic stanceIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-35. 2009.
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23Chapter five. Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideasIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 164-197. 2009.
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3Chapter four. Body-body causation and the cartesian world of matterIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 111-163. 2009.
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329A dialogue with Descartes: Newton's ontology of true and immutable naturesJournal of the History of Philosophy 45 (1): 103-125. 2007.: This article is concerned with Newton's appropriation of Descartes' ontology of true and immutable natures in developing his theory of infinitely extended space. It contends that unless the part played by the Platonic distinction between "being a nature" and "having a nature" in Newton's thinking is properly appreciated the foundation of his doctrine of space in relation to God will not be fully understood. It also contends that Newton's Platonism is consistent with his empiricism once the med…Read more
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38Atoms and the ‘analogy of nature’: Newton's third rule of philosophizingStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 1 (1): 3-58. 1970.
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70Newton and the mechanical philosophy: Gravitation as the balance of the heavensSouthern Journal of Philosophy 50 (3): 370-388. 2012.We argue that Isaac Newton really is best understood as being in the tradition of the Mechanical Philosophy and, further, that Newton saw himself as being in this tradition. But the tradition as Newton understands it is not that of Robert Boyle and many others, for whom the Mechanical Philosophy was defined by contact action and a corpuscularean theory of matter. Instead, as we argue in this paper, Newton interpreted and extended the Mechanical Philosophy's slogan “matter and motion” in referenc…Read more
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59Certain philosophical questions: Newton's Trinity notebookCambridge University Press. 1983.Isaac Newton wrote the manuscript Questiones quaedam philosophicae at the very beginning of his scientific career. This small notebook thus affords rare insight into the beginnings of Newton's thought and the foundations of his subsequent intellectual development. The Questiones contains a series of entries in Newton's hand that range over many topics in science, philosophy, psychology, theology, and the foundations of mathematics. These notes, written in English, provide a very detailed picture…Read more
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