Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason

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Katherine Brading (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University) Marius Stan (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston College)

Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason

Katherine Brading (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University), Marius Stan (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston College)

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Oxford University Press Inc
19 June 2024

Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; History of ideas; Philosophy of science

From pebbles to planets, tigers to tables, pine trees to people; animate and inanimate, natural and artificial; bodies are everywhere. Bodies populate the world, acting and interacting with one another, and they are the subject-matter of Newton's laws of motion. But what is a body? And how can we know how they behave? In Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, Katherine Brading and Marius Stan examine the struggle for a theory of bodies.

At the beginning of the 18th century, physics was the branch of philosophy that studied bodies in general. Its primary task was to provide a qualitative account of the nature of bodies, including their essential properties, causal powers, and generic behaviors. Pursued by a variety of figures both canonical (from Leibniz to Kant) and less familiar (from Du Châtelet and Euler to d'Alembert and Lagrange), this proved a difficult task. At stake were the appropriate epistemologies and methods for theorizing about the natural world. Solutions demanded the combined resources of philosophy, physics, and mechanics: what Brading and Stan call a

By: Katherine Brading (Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy Duke University), Marius Stan (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston College)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 157mm, Width: 224mm, Spine: 51mm
Weight: 771g
ISBN: 9780197678954
ISBN 10: 0197678955
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 19 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katherine Brading is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. She is co-editor of Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (with Elena Castellani) and author of Emilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science. Marius Stan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is author of Kant's Natural Philosophy.

Reviews for Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason

The writing is engaging but technical and aimed at specialists. Brading and Stan characterize the book's intended audience as philosophers of physics, science, and metaphysics and those interested in the history of modern philosophy. A strong, nuanced, technical work with a limited audience. * Choice *