Richard Dien Winfield

Conceiving Nature after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel (eBook, PDF)

The Philosopher's Guide to the Universe

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Re-asserts the philosophy of nature as a topic of legitimate philosophical concern

Show how natural processes can give rise to rational animals

Rooted in Aristotle, Kant and Hegel, the text also draws on more recent thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Hans Jonas

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319662817
• Artikelnr.: 53059678

Autorenporträt

Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, USA, where he has been teaching since 1982. He is President of the Society for Systematic Philosophy and past President of both the Hegel Society of America and the Metaphysical Society of America. He is the author of 19 previous books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Presuppositions of Ancient and Modern Conceptions of Nature.- Chapter 2: How and Where to Begin Conceiving Nature: Three Fundamental Options.- Chapter 3: Space-Time and Matter.- Chapter 4: Matter and Motion.- Chapter 5: From Relative to Absolute Mechanics.- Chapter 6: Physical Process and Light.- Chapter 7: The Physical States of Matter.- Chapter 8: The Physics of Particular Individuality.- Chapter 9: From Thermodynamics to Electromagnetism.- Chapter 10: From Electricity to Chemistry.