This book seeks the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century. In so doing, the author presents a scholarly, reliable, but accessible, account of the role of mathematics in the works of (amongst others) Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, and Berkeley.
This book seeks the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century. In so doing, the author presents a scholarly, reliable, but accessible, account of the role of mathematics in the works of (amongst others) Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, and Berkeley.
David Sepkoski is Assistant Professor of History at Oberlin College, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction - Mathematization and the 'Language of Nature' Chapter 2: Realists and Nominalists: Language and Mathematics before the Scientific Revolution Chapter 3: Ontology Recapitulates Epistemology: Gassendi, Epicurean Atomism, and Nominalism Chapter 4: British Empiricism, Nominalism, and Constructivism Chapter 5: Three Mathematicians: Constructivist Epistemology and the New Mathematical Methods Conclusion: Mathematization and the Nature of Language Notes References Index
Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction - Mathematization and the 'Language of Nature' Chapter 2: Realists and Nominalists: Language and Mathematics before the Scientific Revolution Chapter 3: Ontology Recapitulates Epistemology: Gassendi, Epicurean Atomism, and Nominalism Chapter 4: British Empiricism, Nominalism, and Constructivism Chapter 5: Three Mathematicians: Constructivist Epistemology and the New Mathematical Methods Conclusion: Mathematization and the Nature of Language Notes References Index
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