Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics

Tho, Tzuchien

Springer International Publishing AG

07/2017

147

Dura

Inglês

9783319590530

15 a 20 dias

By treating the immanent philosophy of Leibniz's dynamics, this book makes explicit the systematic aims and inherent limits of Leibniz's physical project, in addition to providing an alternative vision of the scientific understanding of the physical world in the late 17th and early 18th century.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What is structural causation?.- Chapter 3. The equivalence of hypotheses and dynamical causation.- Chapter 4. Continuity and causation in the dynamics.- Chapter 5. The changing concept of the equipollence of cause and effect.- Chapter 6. Vis viva in a monadic world.
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