Stefano Papa (University of Vienna): Publications - PhilPeople

University of Vienna
Department of Philosophy

Post-doctoral fellow

Areas of Interest

Social and Political Philosophy

Logic and Philosophy of Logic

17th/18th Century Philosophy

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Newtons Drittes Axiom (Erhaltung des Impulses in einem Zweikörpersystem) und die Explikation der Methode in der Hegelschen Dialektik
Hegel Jahrbuch 2019 (1): 306-314. 2019.

Newton’s Third Law of Motion (Conservation of Momentum) and the alleged changes of method in Hegel’s dialectic. (Encyclopaedia, II, §§ 253 -269) The Division on Mechanics of Hegel's Encyclopaedia is taken issue with from the viewpoint of Newtonian Dynamics; Newton's Third Law is not explicitly discussed by Hegel. A systematic construction based on both the Science of Logic (Book Two, Section II, Chapter III (The Essential Relation) and the Encyclopaedia is tentatively put forward. McTaggart's i…Read more
Newton’s Third Law of Motion (Conservation of Momentum) and the alleged changes of method in Hegel’s dialectic. (Encyclopaedia, II, §§ 253 -269) The Division on Mechanics of Hegel's Encyclopaedia is taken issue with from the viewpoint of Newtonian Dynamics; Newton's Third Law is not explicitly discussed by Hegel. A systematic construction based on both the Science of Logic (Book Two, Section II, Chapter III (The Essential Relation) and the Encyclopaedia is tentatively put forward. McTaggart's idea of a partiality of the dialectical method is considered in the light of its results in the Philosophy of Nature.