Katherine Brading

Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Foundations contains epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, mechanics, and physics. This book argues that Du Châtelet put her finger on the central problems that lay at the intersection of physics and metaphysics at the time, and tackled them drawing on the most up-to-date resources available.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781138351653
• ISBN-10: 1138351652
• Artikelnr.: 54756751

Autorenporträt

Katherine Brading is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. She works primarily on philosophy of physics from the late 16th century to the present day. She is coeditor of Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Matter, Body, Force
4. Bodies in Action

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1. Introduction

2. Method

3. Matter, Body, Force

4. Bodies in Action